What is incorrect about mitosis?

It is a kind of cell division

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It is required for growth

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It results in formation of two identical daughter cells

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The number of chromosomes in daughter cells is reduced

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Solution

The correct option is D The number of chromosomes in daughter cells is reduced
Mitosis is an equational cell division. The chromosome number in each daughter cell is equal to that of the parent cell. It occurs during growth and repair in multicellular organisms and for asexual reproduction in unicellular eukaryotic organisms.
Whereas, meiosis is reductional division because daughter cells get only half the number of chromosomes from their respective parent cells.

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Meiotic division of a cell results in formation of four daughter cells.

Why the chromosomes number has reduced into half in daughter cells during meiosis division?

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