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True or False. A skin biopsy shows cells arranged in distinct layers, with flat, dead cells on the surface and actively dividing cube-shaped cells deeper down. This cellular organization indicates normal skin tissue showing healthy cell differentiation and replacement processes.
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This describes the normal stratified squamous keratinized epithelium of skin: mitotically active cuboidal/columnar basal cells (stratum basale) produce new cells that differentiate upward into flattened, dead, keratin-filled cells at the surface (stratum corneum).