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In 3-5 sentences explain what mitosis does in fetal development.

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Mitosis is the dividing of all other cells in the body. It is how a baby in the womb grows. Mitosis causes the number of chromosomes to double to 92 and then split in half back to 46. This process repeats constantly in the cells as the baby grows.

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Normally, meiosis causes each parent to give 23 chromosomes to a pregnancy. When sperm fertilizes an egg, the union leads to a baby with 46 chromosomes.

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