Compare And Contrast Mitosis And Meiosis

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Life depends on cell division or the reproduction of cells. Mitosis and meiosis are both used to help the cell divide. Mitosis and Meiosis both consists of 5 different stages that help it divide. These 5 stages are: prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. Mitosis results in two diploid cells. In prophase, it is the first and longest stage, the nucleoli begins to disappear and the chromosomes begin to condense as well. Also in this stage the mitotic spindle begins to form in the cell. The second stage prometaphase, the kinetochore begins to appear on the two sister chromatids of the chromosomes and the proteins attach to them causing movement like a tug of war motion . The nuclear envelope begins to fragment in the cell as …show more content…

At the end of this stage the cell has a full and set collection of chromosomes. In the last phase of mitosis, telophase, the daughter nuclei form. Nuclear envelopes also begin to develop again and any microtubules left over are no longer present in the cell. At the end of mitosis there are two genetically identical cells are complete. Meiosis unlike mitosis has two cell divisions, Meiosis I and Meiosis II. In prophase I of meiosis I, the chromosomes begin by pairing with its homolog and this is also where crossing over occurs. In this stage just like prophase in mitosis the nuclear envelope breaks down and the mitotic spindle begins to develop as well. In Metaphase I the homologue chromosomes line up at the metaphase plate and the kinetochore microtubules attach to both ends of the chromosome. In anaphase I the homologs move to opposite ends of the poles and the homologs also begin to separate as well. In telophase I the sister chromatids appear and each have a full set of duplicated chromosomes. Then following telophase I, prophase II occurs which is when the spindle apparatus begins to appear and the two chromatids begin to the metaphase II

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