What is the name of the parent cell?
Diploid
Triploid
Mother cell
What are the four stages of mitosis?
Interphase
Prophase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase
Growth of cytoplasm
What disappears during prophase?
Nuclear envelope
Nucleus
Chromosomes
Spindle Fibres
Why is Mitosis so important?
It replicates our cells so that when we need new ones (i.e. if we get a cut, it can heal)
It helps us to make clones of ourselves
It is necessary
What happens to DNA (chromosomes) in prophase?
It becomes invisible
It becomes visible
It disappears
What happens to the chromosomes during metaphase?
They line up along the equator of the cell
They go to each corner of the cell
They split
What occurs in anaphase?
Chromosomes line up along the equator of the cell
Chromosomes become visible and the nucleus and nuclear envelope disappear
Chromosomes attach to spindle fibers which pull them apart (contract) and chromatids are pulled to each pole
'Ana' stands for 'backwards' and so because the chromatids are pulled back it is called 'anaphase'
What happens in telophase?
Chromatids turn into chromosomes and the nuclear envelope reforms as does the nucleus.
Chromosomes line up along the equator of the cell.
Chromosomes attach to spindle fibres which contract and pull apart the chromatids pulling them to each end of the cell.
What are the daughter cells identical to?
Each other
Each other and the mother cell
The mother cell
