Which cells undergo mitosis?

In higher organisms like humans, these are immature sperm cells in males and developing eggs in females. All other cells in your body use a different type of cell division, called mitosis, to produce new cells. For example, cells in your skin divide regularly by mitosis to keep a new supply of skin cells available at all times. read more

Somatic cells undergo mitosis as regulated to do so in the cell cycle. Some cells are arrested in the G(zero) phase of the cell cycle, and are prevented from dividing. Cancer is unregulated mitosis that results from a combination of mutations affecting cell cycle regulation. read more