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Advantages and disadvantages of each cell division

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Mitosis

Advantages: It enables your cells to multiply quickly and produce sister chromosomes.

Disadvantages: There is little genetic variation, each generation faces the same diseases.

Meiosis:

Advantages: The crossing over of genes during meiosis results in individual variety, which is beneficial to the population's survival.

Disadvantages: It requires the use of two gametes.
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