During cell division, mitosis refers specifically to the separation of the duplicated genetic material carried in the nucleus. Mitosis is conventionally divided into five stages known as prophase ...

Mitosis itself consists of five active steps, or phases: prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. Before a cell can enter the active phases of mitosis, however, it must go ...

Interphase The cell spends most of its life in this phase. The DNA in chromosomes copies itself ready for mitosis. Prophase The DNA in chromosomes and their copies condenses to become more visible.

As in prophase I, the chromosomes condense, spindles form, the centrioles begin to separate, and the nuclear membrane fragments and disperses. Unlike prophase I, the chromosomes do not attach to ...

Topo II has mostly been studied in mitosis (the cell division that creates new cells for ordinary ... and post-translational modifications of histone proteins. In meiotic prophase I, chromosome ...

when the parent cell combines with another parent cell, the proper amount of DNA is maintained. This solution is called meiosis. Mitosis describes the process by which the nucleus of a cell ...