Mrs. Wade is a part-time knife juggler. A juggling mishap leads to a laceration on her shoulder. Mitosis is needed for repair of the damaged tissues. If her cells have 48 chromosomes (we all know she is a mutant), how many chromosomes do we expect in the new daughter cells? a 12 b 24 c 48 d 96

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Mrs. Wade is a part-time knife juggler. A juggling mishap leads to a laceration on her shoulder. Mitosis is needed for repair of the damaged tissues. If her cells have 48 chromosomes (we all know she is a mutant), how many chromosomes do we expect in the new daughter cells? a 12 b 24 c 48 d 96

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2 months ago

b 24

During mitosis, the daughter cells produced are identical to the parent cell, meaning they should have the same number of chromosomes. Since Mrs. Wade's cells have 48 chromosomes, we can expect the daughter cells from mitosis to also have 48 chromosomes.