How does mitosis of a plate cell differ from an animal cell?
First of all, I’m guessing you meant to say “plant,” not “plate,” but you might have just made a Freudian slip. The process of mitosis is similar in plants and animals, but not the process of cytokinesis. In animals, a cleavage furrow forms (as you may know already) and the original cell pinches off into 2 daughter cells. The problem is, plants can’t do that because their cell walls are made out of cellulose, which is HARD (the reason celery is crunchy, for example). So, instead of animal cytokinesis, plants form a cell PLATE in the middle of the original cell (after the chromosomes have separated) that enlarges and eventually grows to separate one half of the cell from the other. Just in case u wanted to know, a cell plate is originally just membrane, formed when vesicles from the golgi bodies rush to the center of the cell. Good luck.
