When its good and ready.
A cell has to pass through the 3 phases of interphase; G1, S and G2. Then it has to pass through the 4 phases of mitosis; prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. Then it has to undergo cytokinesis. Then the cell has divided.
When a cell divides it forms two new cells. These cells each contain the same number of chromosomes.
Mitosis is when one cell divides into two.
A somatic, or body, cell divides into two genetically identical daughter cells.
Binary fission
Because each cell needs its own set of DNA, there must be two sets of DNA present in a cell before it divides into two.
This is called binary fission.
Mitosis is when one cell divides into two.
cell diffusion
A somatic, or body, cell divides into two genetically identical daughter cells.
interphase
interphase
osmosis
Mitosis
One cell divides and creates two identical cells.
To reproduce
Mitosis if the cell is a eukaryote, cytokinises if the cell is a prokaryote.
cell division
Binary fission