Question

If a cell normally has 32 chromosomes, what would be the results of going through mitosis?

Answer 1

For mitosis, the DNA content of the daughter cells and the mother cell will always be identical. Since the number of cells have doubled, so has the DNA. The 16 chromosomes in the mother cell will be duplicated, then the duplicates split and evenly divided into the daughter cells. The 16 chromosomes in each daughter cell will be non-duplicated at first.