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The process of nuclear division in cells that produces daughter cells that are genetically identical to each other and to the parent cell. (hint: not photosynthesis)

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Mitosis is a type of cell division in which one cell (the mother) divides to produce two new cells (the daughters) that are genetically identical to itself. In the context of the cell cycle, mitosis is the part of the division process in which the DNA of the cell's nucleus is split into two equal sets of chromosomes.

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