Cell Division: Stages of Mitosis
Cell Division: Stages of Mitosis
- The cell cycle includes stages: interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase (including cytokinesis).
- Each stage of mitosis has a distinctive cellular appearance.
- Mitosis is controlled, while uncontrolled cell division can lead to tumours and cancer.
- Cancer treatments often focus on controlling cell division rates.
- Binary fission in prokaryotic cells involves DNA replication and cytoplasm division to produce two daughter cells.
- Viruses, being non-living, do not undergo cell division, instead injecting nucleic acid into a host cell to replicate virus particles.
- Examinations may require explaining mitosis and identifying its stages from an image.
- This information ties into required practical 2.