Question

If a tissue has at a given time $1024$ cells, how many cycles of mitosis had the original parental single cell undergone?

• A. $512$
• B. $10$
• C. $1024$
• D. $256$

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

$10$

Answer 2

Each cycle produces $2$ daughter cells. It is calculated by the formula ($2^{\text{number of cycles}} =$ number of daughter cells). Ten cycles are required to produce $1024$ cells as follows: $2^{10} = 1024$.