Question

What is the produced by mitosis?
A. Two identical cells
B. Two sex cells
C. Chloroplasts
D. Two different cells

Answer 1

First fix your spelling
The answer is A. Two identical cells

Answer 2

Technically, D is the correct answer b/c the question does not specify in what manner are they identical or different. The are certainly different cells, but the are genetically different. If the question had asked are they genetically the same or genetically different, then A would be t he answer.

Answer 3

@mrdoldum is wrong its A

Answer 4

@Polkapen Read what I said. The question dos not say exactly what about the cells is the same or different. Twins are genetically identical but are certainly different people are they not? Same thing here: daughter cells are different, but have the same genetic code.

With that said, I agree that the question's intended answer is A.

Answer 5

You're talking about meiosis, which is for reproduction. Mitosis comes from one single cell creating two daughter cells. The only genotype they get is from their ONE parent. They both have identical DNA, from their parents. So they will look like and be EXACTLY the same from each other and the parent.

Answer 6

Plus, you can't be different when you have the same exact DNA because its not like you have two parents with two different alleles in their genes. Mitosis is just a single set of DNA form one parent.

Answer 7

@mrdoldum

Answer 8

@Polkapen You don't understand what I am saying. The question says "What of the below is produced by mitosis?"

Here is answer A: Two identical cells
Here is answer B: Two different cells

Now, what I am saying is the question does not specify what is identical or different. Think of it like this: if we have two roses and one is white and one is red, we have identical flower species, but different colors.

The result of mitosis is two daughter cells that are genetically identical. However, they are not the same cell. One could be smaller but still have the same DNA sequence. The question is not specific enough, it should have specified in what way the are the same or different.

Answer 9

Its A . During mitosis the two DNA from the cell gets copied . The two 'daughter' cells have chromosomes identical to the parent cell .

Answer 10

@mrdoldum No, I do understand what you're saying but you're wrong. Mitosis comes from one source, one cell, one parent. That one cell has ONE form of DNA.
What you're saying about the flower is, yes they may be the same species, BUT they got half of their DNA from a egg and the other from a sperm. Two sets of DNA means there is different alleles (different versions of the same gene). So one flower may get the gene for red color (from the mom) instead of white (from the dad) depending which gene is dominate.
Mitosis has no variation in genes because ALL the DNA that the daughter cells get are from ONE parent, so there is no other version of a gene because there no other source for another version.

Answer 11

The answer is A.