Final answer:
Each Red fox daughter cell will have 24 chromosomes after mitosis, the same number as in the original body cell, preserving the diploid state.
Step-by-step explanation:
After mitosis, you would expect each Red fox daughter cell to have 24 chromosomes, which is the same number of chromosomes as in the body (or somatic) cells of the Red fox.
Mitosis is a process of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth.
This is in contrast to meiosis, which is the cell division process that produces gametes (sperm and egg cells) with half the chromosome number of the parent cell. In the case of the Red fox, somatic cells contain 24 chromosomes; hence, after mitosis, each daughter cell also contains 24 chromosomes. Notably, for humans, somatic cells have 46 chromosomes, and following mitosis, the daughter cells also contain 46 chromosomes, maintaining the diploid state.