Question

Jane's dog Skippy has 78 chromosomes in each cell. One day, Skippy jumped into a tree while lunging for a frisbee. This left him with a cut on his nose. Luckily, mitosis occurs to help repair the cut. After mitosis, how many chromosomes does each of Skippy's daughter cells have if each original cell had 78 chromosomes?
Responses

0 chromosomes
0 chromosomes

39 chromosomes
39 chromosomes

78 chromosomes
78 chromosomes

156 chromosomes

Answer 1

After mitosis, each of Skippy's daughter cells will have the same number of chromosomes as the original cell. Since each original cell had 78 chromosomes, each of the daughter cells will also have 78 chromosomes.

Therefore, the correct response is:

**78 chromosomes**