Essay On The Four Important Phases Of The Process Of Mitosis

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Have you ever wondered how your injuries heal? Or how you get taller? Well this is all a result of a process called Mitosis. Mitosis is the process when cells duplicate to create more cells. This process goes through 4 important phases. Those 4 steps are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. Those phases are a part of the cell cycle, there are also 2 other steps that are important in the cycle. They are interphase and cytokinesis. The cell cycle is a cycle that all organisms go through that results in cell growth, cell development, and cell division. The process of mitosis takes up about 10% of the cell cycle. Expanding more on mitosis, it is a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number

Interphase is the process when DNA replicates. This phase takes up about 90 percent of the cell cycle, while mitosis only takes up 10 percent of the cell cycle. The process starts with 46 diploid cells, diploid cells are pairs of chromosomes that have the same traits arranged in homologous pairs. Interphase has 3 phases in itself. Those 3 phases are the G1 phase, S phase, and G2 phase. In the G1 phase, the cell gets ready for DNA replication. The G stands for “gap” and the 1 stands for first, this makes it the first gap phase. Next is the S phase, in this phase the DNA replicates and the cell increases in mass. The “S” in s phase stands for synthesis. The last phase in Interphase is the G2 phase, in this phase, the cell synthesizes proteins and continues to get bigger and this is also the phase right before prophase begins. Similar to the G1 phase, in G2 phase the G stands for gap and the 2 represents second making the second gap phase. All of these phases lead up to the first phase of

In this phase, the chromosomes are pulled apart by the spindle fibers at the centromere. The chromosomes are no longer called chromosomes at this point, they are now chromatids again, because there is not longer a centromere connecting the chromatids. The chromatids are now lined up on the walls of the cell. The motor proteins are what fuel the process. The last phase of mitosis is telophase. In this final stage, the cells begin to separate and prepare for cytokinesis. The chromosomes return to their original stringy form that they were in interphase and the beginning of prophase and the daughter cells begin to form. Another thing that happens is that two nuclei form on each side of the cell and the chromosomes begin to uncoil.The last step of the cell cycle is cytokinesis. This process is very similar to what happens in telophase. In this process the cell completely separates and becomes a cell of its own. The cytoplasm divides and the cleavage furrow forms, when the cleavage furrow begins to form the cell slowly begins to