Mitosis

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  • Created on: 10-04-21 09:37
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  • Mitosis
    • The stages of mitosis flow seamlessly into the next
    • What is mitosis?
      • Produces genetically identical offspring from one parent
      • The process of nuclear division
    • The Importance of Mitosis
      • Necessary for asexual reproduction
      • Important for growth, replacement and repair of tissue
      • In plants, animals and fungi
    • Prophase
      • Early Prophase
        • The chromo-somes become more distinct, as they coil up, they thicken, they shorten and they take up stain more easily
      • Late Prophase
        • The centrioles migrate to opposite poles of the cells
    • Metaphase
      • Each centriole is at a pole
        • The centrioles produce spindle fibres
          • The spindle fibres attach to the centromere of the chromosome
            • The centromeres are attracted to both poles
              • The chromosomes are pulled to the metaphase plate (or equator)
    • Anaphase
      • The spindle fibres contract
        • The centromere divides
          • The chromatids are pulled to opposite poles of the cell
            • Each half of the cell receives one chromatid from each chromosome
    • Telophase
      • The chromatids reach the poles of the spindle
        • They begin to uncoil and become less distinct
          • The nuclear envelope start to reform around each new set of chromosomes
    • Chromosomes
      • One Chromosome (before replication)
        • One chromatid per chromosome
      • One chromosome (after replication)
        • Two chromatids per chromosome
      • One chromosome (after mitotic division)
        • One chromatid per chromosome
      • Genetic information (gene/ alleles) that is carried on each chromatid is identical

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