ZoologyNEET 2021Phases of the cell cycle

Cell Cycle and Cell Division

The fruit fly has 8 chromosomes ( $2 n$ ) in each cell. During interphase of mitosis, if the number of chromosomes at $G_{1}$ phase is 8, what would be the number of chromosomes after S phase?

A.8✓
B.16
C.4
D.32

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