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During meiosis the cell duplicates all its chromosomes, then divides twice to ultimately end up with 4 haploid cells. What is the logic behind duplicating the chromosomes first? Couldn't the organism get all the genetic recombination benefits of meiosis (independant assortment, crossing over, etc) by simply having homologous chromosomes separate without duplicating themselves first? Obviously the only one division would be required.