Mitosis

• What is mitosis?

  Division of a cell that results in two daughter cells with identical DNA of the parent cell
• What are the stages of mitosis?

  Interphase

  Prophase

  Metaphase

  Anaphase

  Telophase

  Cytokinesis
• What happens during interphase?

  DNA replication

  Cell growth
• What happens during prophase?

  Chromosomes condense

  Nuclear envelope breaks down

  Spindle fibres develop

  Chromosomes move to equator
• What happens in metaphase?

  Chromosomes are arranged along the equator
• What happens on anaphase?


  Spindle fibres pull chromatids apart to opposite poles
• What happens in telophase?

  Chromosomes lengthen

  Spindle fibres disintegrate

  Nuclear envelope reforms
• What happens during cytokinesis?

  Cytoplasm divides
• What are the phases of interphase?

  G1

  S

  G2
• What happens in G1?

  Cell growth
• What happens in the S phase?

  DNA synthesis
• What happens in G2?

  Further growth of cell