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.