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Stage of mitosis:

Mitosis summary:
Mitosis is a process which can allows a single cell being divided into two identical daughter
cells. It mainly has 6 stages(interphase(cell cycle), prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
and cytokinesis(cell cycle)). Interphase is a special stage where cell is not actually in any division
phase. Cell will spend their majority of life in this interphase and it is also a very active stage of its
life. Then it go into the prophase. In this phase, it’s nucleus membrane break apart, nucleolus
become disappears, DNA supercoils into replicated chromosomes and spindle fibers at centrioles
move towards the cell poles. The third phase is the metaphase. Inside this phase, those
replicated chromosomes will be align at the cell equator, kinetochore(protein complex), located
at the centriole, will connected to the microtubles(a type of the spindle fiber). Next it will enter in
to the anaphase. In this phase, the identical chromatids(unreplicated chromosomes) are actually
pull toward the poles of the cell by the motor protein. Then it will enter into the telophase, which
in this phase, nuclear membrane reform, nucleolus reappears, chromosomes decondense into
chromatin and those spindle fibers break apart. The final step of the cell divisions is the
cytokinesis, it is the division of the cytoplasm of a parent cells into two daughter cells. It is
different than mitosis. Mitosis is the division of the nucleus and the DNA and the nucleus, where
cytokinesis is the splitting of the cytoplasm and organelles

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