How is mitosis important for evolution?

Actually, mitosis provides negligible fuel to the process of evolution. The only thing mitosis relies on to produce variations in the offsprings is the small probability that DNA is not replicated correctly. read more

If mitosis preceded meiosis in evolution, it seems equally likely that mitotic recombination preceded meiotic recombination. In thinking about the origins of meiosis, a point of interest is that meiosis as it exists is not the simplest conceivable process for producing haploid cells from diploid cells. read more

Mitosis and Meiosis in Evolution. Most of the time, mutations in the DNA of somatic cells that undergo mitosis will not be passed down to the offspring and therefore are not applicable to natural selection and do not contribute to the evolution of the species. read more

mitosis as opposed to meiosis is a simple replication. Evolution did occur along the lines of the emergence of muticellualar organisms. Instead of cells moving apart after division they became linked. read more