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Cell Cycle
Term | Definition |
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Interphase | The phase of the cell in which a typical cell spends most of it's ;ife |
Mitosis | a nuclear division plus Cytokinesis, and produce two identical daughter cells during prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telolphase. |
Prophase | the first stage of cell division, before prometaphase and metaphase, during which chrom osomes become visible as paried chromatids and the nuclear disappears. |
Prometaphase | the second stage of mitosis, the process which separates the duplicated genetic material carried in the nucleus by the parent cell into two identical daughter cells. |
Metaphase | the second stage of cell division, between prometaphase and anaphase, during which the chromosomes become attached to the spindle fibers. |
Anaphase | the stage of the meiotic or mitotic cell division in which the chromosomes move away from one another to the opposite poles of the spindle. |
Telophase | the final stage of cell division, between anaphase and interphase, in which the chromatids or chromosomes move to the opposite ends of the cell and two nuclei are formed. |
Cytokinesis | the end of cytoplasmic division at the end of mitosis or meiosis, bringing about the separation into two daughter cells. |