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Why are skeletal muscle cells multinucleate?

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After mitosis, or nuclear division, cytokinesis, or cytoplasmic division, usually occurs. Sometimes in muscle cells, mitosis occurs, creating two nuclei, but cytokinesis doesn't occur. This would leave a cell that has two nuclei. This seems to happen in muscle cells but generally not in other types of cells.

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