AP BIOLOGY

CELL DIVISION

CELL DIVISION AND CANCEROUS CELLS

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

If you started with 24 chromosomes in the nucleus of an animal cell and it went through mitosis, how many chromosomes would each new cell contain?

A	24
B	12
C	48
D	21

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Thus, the parent cell with 24 chromosomes after undergoing mitosis will form two daughter cells each with 24 chromosomes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Complete answer: If a cell has 24 chromosomes and it undergoes mitosis to create two cells, then the daughter cells also have 24 chromosomes each. Mitosis is a process of division of cells where a parent cell divides into two daughter cells each of which is genetically just like the parent cell.

Detailed explanation-3: -After meiosis, the daughter cells will be haploid and will only have half the species number of chromosomes, in this case, 12 chromosomes.

Detailed explanation-4: -At the G1 stage, the cell has 24 chromosomes. Each chromosome has a single chromatid for a total of 24 chromatids.

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