If the skin cells start dividing by meiosis instead of mitosis, what do you think will happen to a cut on the skin? [Pg. No. 22]

If skin cells started dividing by meiosis instead of mitosis, a cut on the skin would not heal properly. This is because skin repair needs mitosis, which produces identical body cells with the same number of chromosomes to replace damaged cells. Meiosis produces cells with half the number of chromosomes, mainly for reproduction, so the new cells would not be normal skin cells. Therefore, the cut would remain unrepaired or heal very poorly.