1. Describe the purpose of mitosis. 2. Describe what is happening in each stage and what each stage looks like:
Prophase
Prometaphase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase
Cytokinesis

1) The purpose of mitosis is growth and repair of cells

Explanation:

Prophase:

-DNA condenses (supercoiled, chromatids are visible under light microscope);

-Nuclear membrane begins to disintegrate (by the end of prophase  it is completely gone)

-Centrioles move to opposite ends of the cell

-Splinde fibers start to form from the centrioles and grow

Metaphase:

-Spindle fibers, departing from both poles, are attached to each centromere, on opposite sides

-The spindle fibers pull the chromosomes back and forth until they align in a plane along the equator of the cell, which is called the equatorial plane

Anaphase:

-The spindle fibers shorten

-The centromeres of sister chromatids split

-Chromatids move apart, pulled by the spindle fibers

-Chromatids become chromosomes

-Half of the chromosomes move to one cell pole, half to the other

Telophase:

-The chromosomes reach the cell pole

-Nuclear membrane reforms

-Spindle fibers break down and disappear

-The chromosomes begin to uncoil, which makes them diffuse and less compact

Cytokinesis:

-The cell membrane pinches inward until the cell divides in two;

-There are two daughter cells with the same structures and number of chromosomes as the parent cell

-Chromosomes decondense

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