The activity on this page has been designed by educational experts to help you to understand the three stages of mitosis. Interact with the activity to see the mitosis phases and descriptions.

The stages outlined in the following example show a cell with a diploid ... It can be seen in the stages shown above that mitosis maintains the chromosome number or complement of a cell.

Despite this fact, many of the other events of meiosis are similar to those that occur in mitosis. For example, prior to undergoing meiosis, a cell goes through an interphase period in which it ...