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Which statement best explains why meiosis produces haploid cells rather than diploid cells

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Meiosis uses 2 different parents, rather than just one like mitosis, which means that meiosis results in haploid daughter cells that contain half the number of chromosomes as the parents while mitosis results in diploid cells, or identical daughter cells.
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