Where in the body does cell division/mitosis happen?

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Trevor Ryan.
Mar 5, 2016

Mitosis happens in all the human body cells except the sex cells.

Explanation:

Cell division by mitosis occurs in all human body cells except the gonads (sex cells).
During mitosis, the DNA is exactly copied and a new daughter cell created with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell, ie 46.

In the sex cells, meiosis occurs where the DNA is halved and the daughter cell has only 23 chromosomes.

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