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Does a cell die after mitosis?
This cell death occurs during mitosis, in cells containing 4N of chromosomes and high cyclin B1 levels. It is accompanied by caspase-3 activation (Burns et al., 2003), indicating that it involves the activation of the apoptotic machinery.
What is the end result of mitosis and cell division?
The result of mitosis is two identical daughter cells, genetically identical to the original cell, all having 2N chromosomes.
What happens to cells after mitosis and cytokinesis?
Mitosis is nuclear division during which duplicated chromosomes are segregated and distributed into daughter nuclei. Usually the cell will divide after mitosis in a process called cytokinesis in which the cytoplasm is divided and two daughter cells are formed.
What happens when cells reproduce using mitosis?
During mitosis, a eukaryotic cell undergoes a carefully coordinated nuclear division that results in the formation of two genetically identical daughter cells. Then, at a critical point during interphase (called the S phase), the cell duplicates its chromosomes and ensures its systems are ready for cell division.
What will happen if the cell division stopped?
If a cell can not stop dividing when it is supposed to stop, this can lead to a disease called cancer. Some cells, like skin cells, are constantly dividing. We need to continuously make new skin cells to replace the skin cells we lose.
How do cells die and reproduce?
Cells in many tissues in the body divide and grow very quickly until we become adults. When cells become damaged or die the body makes new cells to replace them. This process is called cell division. One cell doubles by dividing into two.
What does a cell spend most of its life?
interphase
A cell spends most of its time in what is called interphase, and during this time it grows, replicates its chromosomes, and prepares for cell division. The cell then leaves interphase, undergoes mitosis, and completes its division.
Which of the following terms means cytoplasmic division?
Cytokinesis is the physical process of cell division, which divides the cytoplasm of a parental cell into two daughter cells.
How do the daughter cells at the end of mitosis and cytokinesis?
Each daughter cell has a complete set of chromosomes, identical to that of its sister (and that of the mother cell). The daughter cells enter the cell cycle in G1. When cytokinesis finishes, we end up with two new cells, each with a complete set of chromosomes identical to those of the mother cell.
What is the final stage of mitosis?
Telophase is the fifth and final phase of mitosis, the process that separates the duplicated genetic material carried in the nucleus of a parent cell into two identical daughter cells. Telophase begins once the replicated, paired chromosomes have been separated and pulled to opposite sides, or poles, of the cell.
What kind of cells are produced at the end of mitosis?
At the end of mitosis, one cell produces two genetically identical daughter cells.