CELL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION
CELL DIVISION
Question
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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?
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24
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12
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48
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21
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thus, the parent cell with 24 chromosomes after undergoing mitosis will form two daughter cells each with 24 chromosomes.
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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