which form of cell division- binary fission or meiosis- poses the lower risk for the transmission of genetic disorders. support your answer.

Meiosis has a lower risk of transmitting genetic disorders because it transmits only half of the parent DNA. So if there is a defect on one allele, there is a 50% chance it will not get into the following generation

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Oseni Oseni · Answer 2 · 2021-10-21T13:06:14+02:00

The form of cell division that poses the lower risk for the transmission of genetic disorders would be meiosis.

Binary fission is essentially mitosis. It has to do with the division of vegetative cells in which the daughter cells have exactly the same gene copies and looks as the parent cell. thus, any disorder in the parent cell comes out in an exact fashion in the daughter cells.

During meiosis, however, genetic recombinations do occur and this makes the daughter cells to be genetically different from the parent cell. Hence, the chances that a genetic disorder from the parent cell would be inherited by the daughter cells would become limited.

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