How do little elephants grow up to be BIG

elephants?
The process of cell division
in multicellular animals
begins after a sperm
fertilizes an egg.
Skin cancer - the abnormal growth of
skin cells - most often develops on skin
exposed to the sun

Cell that reproduce by asexual

reproduction reproduce constantly
 Animated Mitosis Cycle
http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm

• Interphase
• Prophase
• Metaphase
• Anaphase
• Telophase
• Cytokinesis
• DNA is replicated (each chromosome is now
a pair of joined, sister chromatids)
• Chromosomes appear as threadlike
chromatin during interphase

CELL
Nucleus MEMBRANE

Cytoplasm
Animal Cell Plant Cell

Photographs from: http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/biol1110/Stages.htm

• Mitosis begins (cell begins to divide)
• Centrioles (or poles) appear and then split apart
and begin to move to opposite ends of the cell
• Nuclear membrane disappears
• Spindle fibres form between the poles
Centrioles
Sister chromatids

Spindle fibres
 Animal Cell Plant Cell

Spindle fibers

Centrioles

Photographs from: http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/biol1110/Stages.htm

• Chromosomes (the pairs of joined, sister
chromatids) attach to the spindle fibres

Centrioles

Spindle fibres
 Animal Cell Plant Cell

Photographs from: http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/biol1110/Stages.htm

• Sister Chromatids separate and are pulled by
the spindle fibres to opposite ends of the cell

Centrioles

Spindle fibres
 Animal Cell Plant Cell

Photographs from: http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/biol1110/Stages.htm

• Two new nuclei form inside newly formed
nuclear membranes
• Chromosomes appear again as chromatin
(threads rather than rods).
• Mitosis ends
Nuclei Nuclei

Chromatin
 Animal Cell Plant Cell

Photographs from: http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/biol1110/Stages.htm

• Cell membrane pinches inwards to create
two daughter cells – each with its own
nucleus with identical chromosomes.
Animal Mitosis -- Review
Interphase Prophase

Metaphase Anaphase

Telophase Interphase
Plant Mitosis -- Review
Interphase Prophase

Metaphase Anaphase

Telophase Interphase
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http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm

The division of a cell to form

two, genetically identical,
daughter cells