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  • Understanding Mitosis: How Cells Divide for Growth and Repair
    When a single cell undergoes many mitotic divisions in the nucleus, producing daughter cells, it has conducted mitosis.

    Here's why:

    * Mitosis is a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells that are genetically identical to the parent cell. This is a process of nuclear division followed by cytokinesis (division of the cytoplasm).

    * Meiosis is a different type of cell division that produces gametes (sperm and egg cells) with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell.

    So, when a single cell repeatedly divides through mitosis, it creates a large number of daughter cells that are all clones of the original cell. This is a crucial process for growth and development in multicellular organisms.

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