The stages outlined in the following example show a cell with a diploid chromosome number of four (two sets of two ... seen in the stages shown above that mitosis maintains the chromosome number ...

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Mitosis ends with telophase, or the stage at which the chromosomes reach the poles. The nuclear membrane then reforms, and the chromosomes begin to decondense into their interphase conformations.