Some cells divide every 2 hrs. How many cells would result from mitosis in 24 hours if you started with a single cell?

Answer 1

Each time mitosis occurs, you end up with double the amount of cells.

If they divide every 2 hours, there will be a total of 12 cycles in 24 hours.

Starting with 1 cell, you will have 2 cells after 2 hours.

You can work out the remaining 11 cycles by doing 211 - which is 2,048 cells.

Answer 2

With the information given, It is almost impossible to figure that out. You don't know how many cells there are, so it can range from no cells (If you had no cells) To a lot of cells (if you had many cells)

~Random Guest~

I agree with Random Guest. An important point to bring up is cells may die. If the question is 'if you start with one cell that divides every 20 minutes, How many will there be after 24 hours, assuming that none die?' than your answer should be about 2^72 power or somewhere along those lines.

Over and out!

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Answer 3

After 24 hours of continuous cell division every 2 hours, the initial single cell would result in 2^12 or 4096 cells. This exponential growth occurs because each cell division doubles the number of cells.

Answer 4

I'm not sure of the exact numeric answer, but it is 2 to the 72nd power (2^72)

Answer 5

128.