Answer :

46 or 23 it all depends on the sex cells and the identical parent cells.

First of all, there are 46 individual chromosomes (23 pairs) in a human cell.

What happens in mitosis is that the original cell copies its DNA (so there are 2 sets of 23 pairs. In the end, after cytokinesis takes place, each daughter cell will have 23 pairs (46 chromosomes).

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