Where a cell divides and creates 2 genetically identical daughter cells
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Why is mitosis necessary?
Because it creates genetically identical copies of itself, it means that the cells can be produced to repair damaged tissues, growth and replacement of old cells.
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What is a chromosome?
Condensed and coiled DNA in the form of chromatin ( a DNA molecule)
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What is chromatin?
Uncondensed DNA with lots of histones (protein), is formed during interphase when DNA combines with histones
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What are chromatids?
Chromosome is converted into 2 identical DNA molecules which are the chromatids
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Describe prophase
Chromatin fibers condense and coil, chromosomes become visible, Nucleolous disappears and nuclear membrane breaks down, microtubules for spindle shaped structures
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Describe Metaphase
Chromosomes move to the equator of cell and attach to spindle fibers
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Describe anaphase
Centromeres in the chromosome holding together the chromatids divide and the chromatids are separated and pulled to opposite poles (spindle fibers)
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Describe telophase
Chromatids reach the poles and are now chromosomes again, nuclear envolope reforms around them and they uncoil, nucleolous is formed
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Describe cytokinesis in animal cells
The cell forms a cleavage furrow in the middle, the cytoskeleton pulls the membrane inwards until it is close enough to fuse around the middle forming 2 cells
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Describe cytokinesis in plant cells
Vesicles from the golgi apparatus line up in the middle and fuse with each other and the cell surface membrane forming a membrane in the middle and splitting the cell into 2, cell wall is then formed
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Why is mitosis necessary?
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Because it creates genetically identical copies of itself, it means that the cells can be produced to repair damaged tissues, growth and replacement of old cells.
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