Cell division, the basic means by which genetic information is passed from generation to generation, involves tightly coordinated movements of a cell's DNA. This page describes the major phases of ...

Mitosis is conventionally divided into five stages known as prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. While mitosis is taking place, there is no cell growth and all of the ...

The membrane around the nucleus disappears. Metaphase Chromosomes and their copies line up in the middle of the cell. Anaphase Chromosomes and their copies are pulled to different ends of the cell.

Plant cells, with their rigid cell walls, form a cell plate that eventually ... are properly attached to the spindle ...