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What is the significance of meiosis?

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(i)It produces haploid gametes for sexual reproduction
(ii) It produces genetic variability due to crossing over during pachytene stage of prophase-I and chance arrangement of bivalents at equator of metaphase-I
(iii)It produces chromosomal and genomic mutations which act as sources of useful variations which help in evolution and improvement of race
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