Question

question 5
fruit fly body cells have 8 chromosomes. after mitosis, you would expect a resulting fruit fly daughter cell to have ...
image of cartoon cells with speech bubbles: \maybe shes born with it!\, \maybe its mitosis!\
options:
○ a 16 chromosomes.
○ b 8 chromosomes.
○ c 46 chromosomes.
○ d 4 chromosomes.

Explanation:

Mitosis is a cell division process that results in two daughter cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell. Fruit fly body cells (parent cells) have 8 chromosomes. After mitosis, daughter cells should inherit the same chromosome number as the parent. So the daughter cell will have 8 chromosomes.

Answer:

b. 8 chromosomes.