Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Mitosis

The five steps of mitosis, called prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase, constitute the period in which the cell makes preparations for cell division. The five phases are differentiated by specific events of preparation for cell division. Cytokinesis refers to the actual cleavage event, splitting the cell in two.

Mitosis is the splitting and duplication of a cell. Mitosis makes 2 daughter cells, both containing 46 chromosomes.

PROPHASE

1 comment:

  1. Andrew,

    I like the picture! Can you provide any more information about each of the steps of mitosis?

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