Mitosis Essay

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What role does mitosis play in your ability to grow? What is the goal, overall, of a cell that undergoes Mitosis? How does meiosis, through the two rounds of division, cut the amount of genetic information in half? Any living organism is constantly making new cells. A healthy human produces 25 million new cells every second. Every time an organism grows in size or repairs worn out or damaged tissue new cells are made. Mitosis has five stages that cell goes through to form two daughter cells which are new cells that help us develop new tissue that was ruined or for any reason. Mitosis is the process that guarantees the continuation of life and genes. Phases of Mitosis The cell cycle starts off with Interphase; it is the busy part of the cell cycle this is where the cell makes ATP witch is energy. This stage also makes protein, producing new organelles such as ribosomes and mitochondria and duplicating there chromosomes. The first actual phase of mitosis is Prophase, it is the longest phase. Stringy chromatin coils up into visible chromosomes, the duplicated chromosomes are made up of two halves. The second dividing stage of mitosis is Metaphase; the chromosomes become attached to the spindle fibers by their centromeres. Then the chromosomes get pulled to the Equator of the spindle. The third dividing stage of mitosis is Anaphase; during anaphase the centromeres are starting to split up and the chromatid pairs from each chromosome separate from each other. The finale dividing stage of mitosis is Telophase; telophase is when many of the changes that occurred in prophase are reversed as the new cells begin to get ready for their own independent existence. The goal for a cell undergoing mitosis is to be developed into daughter cells. Meiosis Meiosis is cell division which produces gametes containing half the number of chromosomes as a parent’s body

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