MITOSIS IS WHEN A CELL REPRODUCES ITSELF BY SPLITTING TO FORM TWO IDENTICAL OFFSPRING.
WHEN THE CELL GETS THE SIGNAL TO DIVIDE IT NEEDS TO DUPLICATE ITS DNA SO THERES ONE COPY FOR EACH NEW CELL. THE DNA IS COPIED AND FORMS X-SHAPED CHROMOSOMES. EACH ARM OF THE CHROMOSOME IS AN EXACT DUPLICATE OF THE OTHER. THE CHROMOSOMES THEN LINE UP AT THE CENTRE OF THE CELL AND THE CELL FIBRES PULL THEM APART. THE TWO ARMS OF EACH CHROMOSOME GO TO THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE CELL. MEMBRANES THEN FORM AROUND EACH OF THE SETS OF CHROMOSOMES AND THESE BECOME THE NUCLEI OF THE TWO NEW CELLS, LASTLY THE CYTOPLAST DIVIDES.
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