Significance of mitosis is in

Occurrence in every tissue of body

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Increasing cellular mass

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Swift division

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Producing cells genetically similar to parent cell

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Solution

The correct option is D Producing cells genetically similar to parent cell
Mitosis occurs in all somatic cells of the body. It is responsible for the growth of that organism and each cell formed is genetically identical to the parent cell. Thus the correct answer is option D.

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Assertion: Mitosis maintains the genetic similarity of somatic cells.
Reason: Chromosomes do not undergo crossing over during mitosis.

Question 19

If a tissue has at a given time 1024 cells, how many cycles of mitosis had the original parental single cell undergone?

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