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While in mitosis, the daughter cells resemble each other and alos the parent cell, in meiosis they differ not only fom parent cell in having half the number of chromosomes. But also differ among themselves qualitatively in genetic consitution due to

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segregation and crossing over only

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independent assortment and segregation only

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independent assortment and croosing over only

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crossing over, idependent assortment and segregation.

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