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. Do you think this would be an equally good way of organizing the cell cycle

No, because it would lead to chromosome mosaicism  

Explanation:

Chromosomal mosaicism can be defined as the presence of two or more cell populations with a distinct number and/or type of chromosomes in the cells of an organism. If the cell would split before chromosome duplication, it would lead to the fact that some cells would have one chromosome of the homologous pair being duplicated, while other cells would have duplicated the other one. In consequence, this process would produce a genomic imbalance between different cell populations that would be expected to be lethal for the organism.

genetic variation will increase because of a new habitat and food source.

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