Understanding Mitosis

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Mitosis

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Cell division process resulting in two identical daughter cells

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Prophase

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Chromosomes condense, spindle fibers form

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Metaphase

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Chromosomes align at the cell equator

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Anaphase

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Sister chromatids separate to opposite poles

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Telophase

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Nuclear membranes reform, chromosomes decondense

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Cytokinesis

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Division of the cytoplasm, final step of cell division

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Interphase

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Cell growth and DNA replication phase before mitosis

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Chromatid

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Each of the two identical halves of a duplicated chromosome

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Centromere

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Region where sister chromatids are joined

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Spindle fibers

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Protein structures that separate chromosomes during mitosis