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The contractile ring pinches a dividing cell into two new cells by the action of myosin ll moving along the action philaments.

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It happens during the telophase and cytokinesis stage of cell division for both meiosis and mitosis

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The process of dividing one cell nucleus into two cell nuclei is called?

the process of dividing one cell nucleus into two nuclei is called mitosis.


What happens instead the cytoplasm pinch in following telophase in plant cells?

a cell plate forms between the two cells


What is the furrows role in cell division?

in animal cells, as daughter cells pinch into two cells, there is a space between the cells called a furrow. as the furrow gets increasingly narrower, the spindle fibers are pressed into a tight bundle, called a stembody!!!


What is term for the two sets of chromatids formed in a parent cell?

sister chromatids (after DNA replication, but before dividing)


What is Cytokinsesis?

Cytokinesis is the last step in Mitosis, the cell reproduction cycle. During Cytokinesis, the two cells pinch off the cell membrane in between themselves at the furrow. The cell wall then closes itself in on both cells to complete Mitosis.

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What causes a dividing cell to pinch in two by contracting like a purse string?

Pili


How does the the furrow form in the animal cell?

a daughter cell pinch into two cells


The process of dividing one cell nucleus into two cell nuclei is called?

the process of dividing one cell nucleus into two nuclei is called mitosis.


What is the name of the process of one cell dividing into two cells?

daughter cell


What does two cells dividing into four cells mean?

Cell production.


A cleavage furrow forms in an animal cell during?

mitosis or cell divition or reproduction in one of the phases


What pinches a dividing prokaryotic cell into two cells?

Animal cells


New cell wall that begins to form in the middle dividing the two sides during cytokinesis in a eukaruote?

the cell plate


Does a cell reproduce by dividing to create four parent cells?

No. A cell undergoes division to create two identical daughter cells.


What happens instead the cytoplasm pinch in following telophase in plant cells?

a cell plate forms between the two cells


What are the two stages of cell division called?

The eukaryotic cells has two major stages in dividing the cells. The two stages are the cytokinesis and the mitosis stage.


What is the furrows role in cell division?

in animal cells, as daughter cells pinch into two cells, there is a space between the cells called a furrow. as the furrow gets increasingly narrower, the spindle fibers are pressed into a tight bundle, called a stembody!!!