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You accidentally cut your finger while preparing food in the kitchen. The cut is deep enough to require stitches, but fortunately, it's not severe enough to damage the underlying structures or nerves. The cut exposes the underlying layers of skin, leading to a wound that needs to heal. You clean the wound thoroughly and seek medical attention to receive stitches to close the cut.

While you are at the doctor you start thinking about the process for the wound to heal properly. You start wondering whether the skin tissue will regenerate and the processes involved. Last week in class you discussed the process of cell-division and have a lab coming up on the topic.

Which type of cell division would be involved in tissue regeneration?