When a body cell of a potato divides how many chromosomes will each of the new cells contain?

Cell division- "The replication (mainly by the process of mitosis)of a single by division of the genetic materials, along with the resources present inside the cytoplasm of that cell in order to sustain the life of newly formed cells is called as the cell division inside living beings."

Chromosomes Number- Each cell contains a set of genetic materials in the form of DNA(in the diploid form). As there are different number or a set of chromosomes. And each specie and cells are different in features from the all other cells.

Mitosis-It is the division of the diploid number of chromosomes into two identical haploid cells, the haploid cells contain full number of chromosomes.

Explanation:

Number of Chromosomes in Potato:

There are 48 number of chromosomes inside a diploid potato cell. Which then goes through the process of mitosis and it then divides the whole parent cell into two identical haploid cells. As each of the haploid cells contain the full number of chromosomes present inside the two newly cells formed by the process of mitosis.

So, now by doing the simple math we can have the answer, as dividing the diploid number of chromosomes by '2', we can get the haploid number of chromosomes present in the newly formed cells.

Diploid number of chromosomes=48,
Number of haploid cell produced =2,
So dividing the total number of diploid chromosomes on the number of haploid cells formed we can get the answer= 48/2,
Each haploid cell will have, the following number of chromosomes=24.