The result of mitosis is that the daughter cells end up with the same number of chromosomes that the parent cell had. Another way to maintain the number of chromosomes would be to carry out cell division first and then duplicate the chromosomes in each daughter cell. Do you think this would be an equally good way of organizing the cell cycle? Why do you suppose that evolution has not led to this alternative? Place the terms on the left to the appropriate blanks in the paragraph to complete the sentences.
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The two resulting daughter cellscompletely identical if divide first and then duplicate chromosomes. The replication that occurs after division would generate, which be repaired according to the cell. In this case, the genetic informationinherited less accurately. This way of cell division would befor organisms and would likely be.