Synopsis
Mitosis is a type of cell replication that is essential to the human body's ability to grow and repair.
- Programme: Bitesize Science
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Biology | Cell biology | Cell division | Mitosis and the cell cycle
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