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State whether the following statement is true or false

As you grow from childhood to adulthood, your skin cells divide only to replace such cells that are lost from the surface.


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True
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False
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Solution

The correct option is B False

Skin cells:

  1. It is said that human beings shed their entire skin every 2-4 weeks.
  2. The shed cells are replaced by the underlying cells and the cycle continues.
  3. So skin cells divide to produce new skin cells throughout life.

Final answer: The given statement is false.


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