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How does your body make new skin cells?

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Mitosis.

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If you have old and new skin what does that mean?

The human body continually sheds dead skin cells, and re-grows new ones. So at any given time, a person's body has both new and old skin cells.


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What are the different kinds of cell in the body?

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How does thee body know when to make new cells?

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Why are youre skin cells continuously undergoing mitosis?

Bacteria is constantly forming on the outer layer of your skin. It is looking for a way to invade your body. Your body reacts by simply throwing away the outer layer of your skin. It does that a cell at a time, but it does it constantly. Those cells must be replaced. To do that, the cells underneath must constantly reproduce and create new skin cells.


Why do you think you can grow new skin over a cut on your hand but you cant grow new fingers?

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How many chromosomes will the new skin cells have?

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