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Most human cells when placed in a dish will not divide. The majority of cells that make up a human are post-mitotic. They have differentiated and specialized to carry out physiological functions for the body and have lost their capacity for division. However, a small percentage of human cells are stem cells or progenitor cells and do have a capacity to divide and if cultured under the correct conditions will undergo mitosis.

There is a slight caveat - whenever you're culturing a cell in a dish, you are taking a cell out of its normal environment and putting it under very unnatural circumstances. Thus, it is not unknown for cells to behave oddly in a dish - cells that should divide don't because we don't understand the conditions necessary to promote their division. And sometimes cells that shouldn't divide do because we have subjected them to unnatural conditions that alter their identity and behavior.

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