Question 11 • PA Human Anatomy & Physiology A 2026-2027 SMITH IC
Mitosis is used in asexual reproduction and typically produces cells with the same chromosome number as the parent cell. In a diploid organism, those cells are diploid, so the correct pairing is “mitosis, part of asexual reproduction because it produces diploids.” Meiosis is associated with sexual reproduction and produces haploid cells, not diploids.
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