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State the significance of crossingover.

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The significance of crossing over are as follows
(i) Crossing over produced recombination or new gene combinations which form variations which are the raw material in the formation of new species and evolution
(ii) Useful recombination produced by crossing over are used in producing new varieties of plants and animals in breeding programme .
(iii) It is used for preparing linkage maps or determining location of genes in chromosomes
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