You cut your finger, and your skin cells divide to heal up the wound. What type of nuclear
division is happening in the skin cells? (Mitosis or meiosis?) and why.
You cut your finger, and your skin cells divide to heal up the wound. What type of nuclear
division is happening in the skin cells? (Mitosis or meiosis?) and why.
Solution
When we cut our finger the skin cells undergo mitotic division to heal up the wound, because
skin is a somatic cell not a germ cell. Only germ cells like egg cell and sperm cells undergo
meiosis as these cells are the only haploid and give rise to a new organism with n+n = 2n number
of chromosomes. In our body rest all cells divide by mitosis, as mitosis ensures that
(2n)chromosomes after dividing are distributed evenly between two cells and maintain the
idenity of the cell while dividing..
You cut your finger, and your skin cells divide to heal up the wou.pdf
1. You cut your finger, and your skin cells divide to heal up the wound. What type of nuclear
division is happening in the skin cells? (Mitosis or meiosis?) and why.
You cut your finger, and your skin cells divide to heal up the wound. What type of nuclear
division is happening in the skin cells? (Mitosis or meiosis?) and why.
Solution
When we cut our finger the skin cells undergo mitotic division to heal up the wound, because
skin is a somatic cell not a germ cell. Only germ cells like egg cell and sperm cells undergo
meiosis as these cells are the only haploid and give rise to a new organism with n+n = 2n number
of chromosomes. In our body rest all cells divide by mitosis, as mitosis ensures that
(2n)chromosomes after dividing are distributed evenly between two cells and maintain the
idenity of the cell while dividing.
