Cell Division: Mitosis
Vocab
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"Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mospquito's wing that falls on the rails." --Henry David Thoreau Walden
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anaphase
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the mitotic stage in which the chromatids separate into chromosomes and move toward opposite ends of the cell. (between metaphase and telophase) |
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cytokinesis
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the stage in the cell cycle in which the cytoplasm is divided to form two daughter cells.
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diploid
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(2n) a chromosome number twice that found in gametes (sex cells).
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haploid
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(n) the number of chromosomes found in an organisms gametes or spores. |
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interphase
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the stage of the cell cycle in between mitotic divisions. Not a part of mitosis.
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metaphase
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the stage of mitosis in which the chromosomes line up at the equatorial plane. |
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prophase
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the first stage of mitosis; the nuclear envelope breaks down and chromatin condenses into distinct chromosomes.
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telophase
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the last stage of mitosis, when the chromosomes decondense into chromatin and nuclear membranes are formed.
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B R I G H A M
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Y O U N G U N I V E R S I T Y
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