3. Somatic cells refer to all of an organism's cells except the gametes (sex cells). Would somatic cells undergo

mitosis? Why or why not? Would somatic cells under meiosis? Why or why not?

In multi-cellular organisms, like ourselves, mitosis only occurs in somatic cells, which comprise all cells in an organism excluding germ cells ... Cells that undergo mitosis duplicate their chromosomes, resulting in cells with two times their normal haploid or diploid numbers.