Friday, 1 January 2016

Turn Over a New Leaf With Mitosis!

It's a new year: 2016, and we're going to have some good content coming back soon!

First, how about we turn over a new leaf - with mitosis?

Mitosis is the division of the nucleus to produce 2 diploid daughter cells

The process of Mitosis goes through 5 stages:

Prophase 

A picture of two mouse nuclei in prophase
 Prometaphase

Photograph of all 23 human chromosomes
 Metaphase

Chromosomes lined up


 Anaphase
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Anaphase_IF.jpg
Another cell during anaphase


Telophase:

The cell during telophase

And that's the 5 steps!

Now, in review, a more simplified version of mitosis:

 And for those of you really into it, the more complex edition:



[Credit to Wikipedia and it's sources, and universe-review for the images]

Happy New Year to all of you!

- Geeker

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