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MITOSIS.

What is meiosis?

● Meiosis is a process where a single cell divides twice to produce four cells containing half the original amount of genetic information. These cells are our sex cells – sperm in males, eggs in females.

Meiosis can be divided into eight stages. These are divided between the first time the cell divides (meiosis I) and the second time it divides (meiosis II).

1. Prophase :

2. Metaphase :

● The chromosome pairs line up next to each other along the centre (equator) of the cell.

● The centrioles are now at opposites poles of the cell with the meiotic spindles extending from them.

● The meiotic spindle fibres attach to one chromosome of each pair.

3. Anaphase :

● The pair of chromosomes are then pulled apart by the meiotic spindle, which pulls one chromosome to one pole of the cell and the other chromosome to the opposite pole.

● In meiosis I the sister chromatids stay together. This is different to what happens in mitosis and meiosis II.

4. Telophase :

● The chromosomes complete , their move to the opposite poles of the cell.

● At each pole of the cell a full set of chromosomes gather together.

● A membrane forms around each set of chromosomes to create two new nuclei.

● The single cell then pinches in the middle to form two separate daughter cells each containing a full set of chromosomes within a nucleus. This process is known as cytokinesis.

For better understanding let’s see this video of Mitosis

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