How many chromosomes does each new cell contain after mitosis if the original cell had 52 original cell chromosomes

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Vahag Chakhoyan · Answer 1 · 2015-11-02T11:05:44+0000

First of all, there are 46 individual chromosomes (23 pairs) in a human cell.

What happens in mitosis is that the original cell copies its DNA (so there are 2 sets of 23 pairs. In the end, after cytokinesis takes place, each daughter cell will have 23 pairs (46 chromosomes).

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