What are the stages in the type of cell division called mitosis?
Cell division consists of two stages: mitosis, the division of the cell’s nucleus, and cytokinesis, the division of the whole cell. Divided into four phases—prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase—mitosis begins with the replication, or production of another complete set, of chromosomes (thread-like bodies in a cell’s nucleus that hold the genes) within a cell. These two sets of chromosomes, called sister chromatids, move apart to opposite ends of the cell. During the next stage of cell division, cytokinesis, the entire cell divides in two and each set of chromosomes ends up in a different cell. Nuclear division of sex cells is called meiosis. The main difference between mitosis and meiosis is the number of chromosomes resulting after cell division. In mitosis the number of chromosomes is doubled before they are…
