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If errors happen during the segregation, one daughter cell will have too many chromosomes, while the other has too few.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

The sister chromatids then need to be evenly split over the two daughter cells to ensure that each daughter cell is an exact copy of the parent cell.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2024

After a cell copies its DNA, the marks are partially lost, but the 3D folding allows each daughter cell to easily restore the chemical marks needed to maintain its identity.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

Karyokinesis is unnecessary because there is no nucleus and thus no need to direct one copy of the multiple chromosomes into each daughter cell.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

At this time the chromosomes do not split, but one whole chromosome of each pair goes into each daughter cell.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson