Mitosis is responsible for growth, repair, and maintenance in an organism because a. it occurs at a faster rate than meiosis.
b. the chromosome number is reduced by half.
c. exact duplicates of each mother cell are produced.
d. it is the only process that involves replication of genetic material.

C

Explanation:

Beacause if it didn't make exact copies they could make the body function differently

unicellular organisms, like bacteria, are able to perform all life functions within one single cell. multicellular organisms need many different types of cells to carry out the same life processes. each of these special types of cells has a different structure that it perform a specific function.