Syncing Photos between iPhone and iPhoto

Two part question:
1) Is it required to launch iPhoto and import photos into the app or are they/can they be transferred just by syncing the phone in iTunes?
2) When I do sync with iPhoto, I often get duplicate photos which I previously imported into iPhoto but they get transferred back to my phone, so I now have the same photo multiple times. This is a annoying as you can imagine. How do I prevent this?
Thanks in advance.

1) Camera roll pics ( taken with iphone ) are NOT part of the itunes sync process at all. You import them as you would from any digital camera - iphoto for example.
2) If you do not delete the pics from iphone once you have imported them, then you may end up importing them twice.
You should regularly import pics from iphone, then you can organize them on your computer and sync whatever you like to iphone.
There is no reason to keep anything in the Camera Roll once you have imported them into your computer. As with everything else on your computer, you should always maintain a backup copy on an external drive, flash drive, cds,dvds,etc,

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