What are the stages of mitosis?

Answer 1

The five basic stages of mitosis are: interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase.

In prophase, the genetic material in the nucleus condenses and the duplicated chromosomes become visible. The nucleolus disappears and the nuclear envelope begins to break down, spindle fibers also start extending from both poles of the cell. In metaphase, the duplicated chromosomes become aligned in the center of the cell, spindle fibers attach themselves to the centromere of the chromosomes. In anaphase, the stage of mitosis in which the duplicated sets of chromosomes separate and two identical groups move to opposite poles of the cell. in telophase, a nuclear membrane re-forms around each new group of chromosomes.