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Deepika Mishra

Class 11th
Biology
2 years ago

Why is mitosis called equational division?

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Abhishek Mishra

2 years ago

Explanation Mitosis is the process of cell division where the chromosomes of somatic cell replicate and get equally distributed into daughter cells. Mitosis gives rise to two daughter cells. The chromosome number in each daughter cell is equal to that in the parent cell that is the number of chromosomes after undergoing mitosis remains the same. If the cell is diploid (2n, where n is the haploid number of chromosome) then the daughter cells will have 2n numbers of chromosomes after mitosis and if the cell is haploid then after mitosis the daughter cell will contain n number of chromosomes. Hence, mitosis is known as equational division. Final Answer Cell division is that the driving process of reproduction at the cellular level. Mitosis may be a process of agamogenesis (also called asexual reproduction) observed in unicellular organisms. The number of chromosomes after undergoing mitosis remains the same. Most eukaryotic cells divide in a manner where the ploidy or the number of chromosomes remains the same, except in the case of germ cells where the number of chromosomes is halved.

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