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Explain why the daughter cells will have the identical hereditary information as the parent cell.

I’m in 7th grade so please use words that make sense for me to use. Thank you!

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The daughter cells will have identical DNA information as the parent cell because the process of mitosis splits the parent cell into two. When the parent cell is split it makes a copy of its DNA and passes it on to the daughter cell. The daughter cells will have identical DNA as the parent cell, but there might be a mutation on the molecular level due to the imperfections of cell division.

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