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Why do chromosomes in parent cell duplicate during mitosis?

Chromosomes doubles during the S phase of inter-phase, which occurs before Mitosis. During the process of mitoses cell divides into 2 daughter cells from a single parent hence, before mitoses cells must duplicate so that each new cell has a sufficient set of genetic material.


When a body cell divides through the process of mitosis what is the number of chromosomes in the daughter cells?

After mitosis each daughter cell contains 46 chromosomes as the DNA replicates itself before the cell divides


Why does a cell make a copy of itself before it divides?

So that the new cells have the same chromosomes as the parent cells.


What happens to the info before the cell divides?

Your DNA is copied into the new cell every time it divides


What does a cell do before it divides?

it has to copy its DNA


During cell life when do chromosomes duplicate?

in the interphase


What does a parent cell do just before it divides?

a parent cell does before dividing is (i do not know because this did not ANSWER MY QUESTION


Why does interphase the longest?

because it consists of 3 parts: g1 phase- the cell grows itself s phase- the cell replicates its DNA g2 phase- the cell further divides itself before entering into mitosis so, doing all this requires a lot of time.


Does microorganism reproduce by spores?

No,they do not. They reproduce by cell division. Cell division is when a micro organism divides itself into two.


Before a cell divides it must first make an exact copy of all of its?

A cell must make an exact copy of its genome before it divides. Genomes are the complete set of chromosomes present in a cell.


Before a cell divides what happens to the centrioles?

it triples in number


What does a cell divide into during binary fission?

It divides into two identical copies of itself.