Assignment:
Questions for Mitosis
1. What is the Cell Cycle? Explain what happens in the cell during each of the five phases of the cell cycle: G1, S, G2, M, and C.
2. Define mitosis. What is the purpose of mitosis?
3. Describe the events that take place during interphase as the cell prepares to divide.
4. Describe the events that take place during prophase at the beginning of cell division.
5. What happens during prometaphase?
6. Describe the appearance of the chromosomes at metaphase.
7. Describe the movement of the chromosomes during anaphase.
8. Describe the changes that take place in the dividing cell during telophase.
9. How does the cytoplasm of an animal cell divide to form two daughter cells? How does the plant cell?
10. If a human cell containing 46 chromosomes divides by mitosis, how many chromosomes would be found in each one of the daughter cells that result from the division?