Raul has scraped his knee and noticed that after a

week it had almost completely healed. Raul
wondered how the skin was able to repair itself while
looking exactly the same as his non-injured skin. In
1-2 sentences explain how mitosis plays a role in
healing skin after injury and is able to maintain the
look of the existing, non-injured skin. (4 points)

Mitosis plays a role in healing skin after injury by producing new cells to replace the damaged ones, with the new cells being identical to the existing, non-injured skin due to their DNA replication during mitosis.