How many cell divisions would you think need to occur during the life of an onion? With this thought, describe the marvel of the continuity of life considering that after thousands of years onions are still onions.

The number of cell divisions is too large to even estimate.

Explanation:

Think, for every cell to be formed, a parent cell needed to divide. on top of that, for every parent cell is the result of another parent cell. Think of how small a cell is, and think of how many cells are in the onion.  The fact that onions are still onions is incredible, because a DNA mutation occurs at a very high rate during cell division.  When DNA divides, it sometimes doesn't divide evenly, resulting in too much DNA is one cell, and not enough in another.   Science has proven that the composition of DNA is what makes humans humans, trees trees, and onions onions.  The fact that onions have withstood the millions upon millions of DNA mutations while still remaining a species, is astonishing.

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