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EVOLUTION CONNECTION The result of mitosis is that the daughter cells end up with the same number of chromosomes that the parent cell had. Another potential way to maintain the number of chromosomes would be to carry out cell division first and then duplicate the chromosomes in each daughter cell. Assess whether this would be an equally good way of organizing the cell cycle. Explain why evolution has not led to this alternative.
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