A cow has 60 chromosomes in its body cells. when a cow's body cells divide by mitosis, how many chromosomes will each daughter cell have?

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Krystal Beard

31 August, 03:15

A cow has 60 chromosomes in its body cells. when a cow's body cells divide by mitosis, how many chromosomes will each daughter cell have?

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Carly Newman · Answer 1

Mitosis is a kind of cell division that produces 2 daughter cells, which are genetically identical to both the other daughter cell, and also the parent cell

Before the parent cell divides, it duplicates all the DNA. With that being said, it means both daughter cells has the completely same chromosomes numbers and the types of alleles.

Different to another cell division, meiosis. Meiosis has daughter cells which has half of the parents chromosomes.

Therefore, the daughter cells will still have 60 chromosomes. The cells are said to be diploid.