Vocab words on the topic "Mitosis"

Microtubules, essentially miniature strings, splay out from opposite ends of the cell and shorten, pulling apart the sister chromatids of each chromosome.[5]

Metaphase: The chromosomes have aligned at the metaphase plate.

Cytokinesis has already begun; the pinched area is known as the cleavage furrow.

[edit] Prophase
Micrograph showing condensed chromosomes in blue and the mitotic spindle in green during prometaphase of mitosisMain article: Prophase
Normally, the genetic material in the nucleus is in a loosely bundled coil called chromatin.

The cells of higher plants (such as the flowering plants) lack centrioles; instead, microtubules form a spindle on the surface of the nucleus and are then being organized into a spindle by the chromosomes themselves, after the nuclear membrane breaks down.[7]

The homologus pairs are held together by a specialized region of the chromosome known as the centromere.

Each homologus pair is not considered a chromosome in itself, and a chromosome always contains 2 chromatids.

This occurs during the S phase of interphase, the period that precedes the mitotic phase in the cell cycle where preparation for mitosis occurs.[4]

Prophase: The two round objects above the nucleus are the centrosomes.

The primary result of mitosis is the transferring of the parent cell's genome into two daughter cells.

The chromatin has condensed.

It alternates with the much longer interphase, where the cell prepares itself for cell division.