The outer layer of your skin that you see and feel and with which you sense the world is called the epidermis. Within the epidermis are layers of four different kinds of skin cells: keratinocytes, melanocytes, Merkel cells, and Langerhans cells. read more
The outer layer of your skin that you see and feel and with which you sense the world is called the epidermis. Within the epidermis are layers of four different kinds of skin cells: keratinocytes, melanocytes, Merkel cells, and Langerhans cells. You started life as a single cell that divided into two cells. read more
In eukaryotes, there are two distinct types of cell division: a vegetative division, whereby each daughter cell is genetically identical to the parent cell (mitosis), and a reproductive cell division, whereby the number of chromosomes in the daughter cells is reduced by half to produce haploid gametes (meiosis). read more
Mitosis is a type of cellular division in which one cell, called the parent, divides into two identical daughter cells, reports Dawn Tamarkin, Ph.D., of Springfield Technical Community College. In the case of skin cells, it takes place in the basal layer of the epidermis. read more