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Jet001 [13]
3 years ago
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What is Mitosis and why does it happen?

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enyata [817]3 years ago
7 0
Mitosis is nuclear division. During Mitosis, chromosomes that have already been duplicated, attach to spindle fibers that pull a copy of each chromosome to the opposite side of the cell.
Pretty much creating 2 daughter nuclei 
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