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Interphase
(Alert! Preparing for mitosis) |
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Before a cell actively divides, it must grow and duplicate much of it's contents so that two "daughter cells" can from from one
-Greatest metabolic process |
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-2 even daughter cells each with 23 chromosomes
-A series of 4 stages; but is actually continuous |
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| -Sex cell splitting; divides into 4 uneven daughter cells |
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Prophase
(1st stage of mitosis) |
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-results in the DNA condensing into chromosomes, centrioles migrating to the poles, microtubules of the cytoskeleton reorganizing into spindle fibers
-Makes spiderwed between each centrosome |
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| occurs as spindle fibers attach to centromers on the choromosomes and the chromosomes align midway between centrioles |
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| -Occurs as the spindle fibers conrtact and pull the sister chromatids toward the centrioles |
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| -the final stage in mitosis, begins when the chromosomes have completed their migrations, the nuclear envelope reappears, and the chromosomes begin to unwind |
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