Question

If a human cell has 46 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will be in each daughter cell?

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

During Interphase, the DNA is copied. Hence, there are 2 copies of one chromosome. This means that there are now 46 pairs of chromosome in the parent cell. However, during cytokinesis, the cell divides itself into two, meaning that each daughter cell are left with 23 pairs of chromosomes or 46 chromosomes.

Answer 2

There can be 2 cases.

1) If the cell divides by mitosis, the daughter cells will have 46 chromosomes.

Mitosis is equational division and the amount of chromosomes remains same.

2)If the cell divides by meiosis, the daughter cells will have 23 chromosomes.

Meiosis is reductional division and the number of chromosomes gets reduced by half.