As the salamander's wound heals, it's body cells are dividing to repair the damage. How is this type of cell division similar to asexual reproduction?

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Jennifer Zavala

10 May, 12:14

As the salamander's wound heals, it's body cells are dividing to repair the damage. How is this type of cell division similar to asexual reproduction?

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Anton Blackwell · Answer 1

Wound healing is a process to regenerate cells at the site of an injury or infection. Asexual reproduction is a process in which daughter cells are produced from a single cell or organism.

The wound healing process is similar to asexual reproduction because both the processes use mitosis for cell division. As a result of mitosis, two daughter cells are produced which are identical to the parent cells. Hence, during wound healing and asexual reproduction, the same cells as the parent cells are produced.