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Because the daughter cells have to have the same number of chromosomes you began with.

When the cells go through mitosis the get split. If you split a cell with 46 chromosomes into two, you would only have 23 each.

That's why it needs to replicate beforehand. It will make sure the cells always have 46 chromosomes.

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