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Cancer

Chapter 6, Problem 5

Mitosis                   . a. occurs only in cancerous cells; b. occurs only in skin cells; c. produces daughter cells that are exact genetic copies of the parent cell; d. results in the production of three different cells

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Hello everyone here we have a question asking answer, What is not true about mitosis? A It produces identical cells. That is true. No crossing over occurs in mitosis. So the genetic material is equally distributed among the daughter cells. Be uncontrolled mitosis as cancer. This is true. And it's caused by mutations in somatic cells. See involved in a sexual reproduction. This is true and it produces identical cells like we mentioned earlier. D It results in the production of half would gam meats and humans. This is incorrect. It results in the production of deployed somatic cells. Mitosis takes place only in somatic cells. Gametes and animals are produced by me aosis. So D is our answer here results in the production of happily gametes in human. Thank you for watching. Bye.