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Can asexual organisms undergo genetic recombination? Why or why not?​

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During meiosis in eukaryotes, genetic recombination involves the pairing of homologous chromosomes. ... Genetic recombination and recombinational DNA repair also occurs in bacteria and archaea, which use asexual reproduction.

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