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The "crossing over" of maternal and paternal genetic information in chromatids to form new combinations of genetic information occurs during...?

a. prophase
b. metaphase
c. anaphase
d. telophase

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User KAnGeL
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Metaphase is the stage in which the "crossing over" occurs.


As we know chromosomes carry genetic information. This crossing over process happens in eukaryotic cells and occurs during the mitosis phases of cell division.


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