Question

if a tissue has at a given time 512 cells how many cycles of mitosis had the original parental single cell undergone answer with explanation

Answer 1

Total number of cells= N x 2ⁿ (N=initial number of cells that had undergone mitosis, n = number of cycles
Here, N = 1 and during mitosis each cell produces 2 new cells
Therefore, ​1 x 2ⁿ = 512
2n = 2⁹
n = 9 cycles