chromosomes & mitosis

• In human body cells, are chromosomes found in pairs or triplets?

  in pairs, one from mother and one from father
• what do chromosomes contain?

  GENES: chromosomes are coiled up lengths of DNA which carry large number of genes
• what is mitosis? and what is it used for?

  mitosis is the stage of a cell cycle when the cell divides, organisms use mitosis to grow or replace cells that have been damaged