Models of Mitosis


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The process of mitosis replicates the genetic material of the parent cell and distributes it among the two daughter cells. There is high fidelity of the genetic information from one generation to the next. This is:

bullethow the cell number increases as an organism grows from a single fertilized egg,
bulletpart of what happens during wound healing, and 
bulletthe way tissues make repairs and compensate for normal cell attrition.

The following thumbnails are of photographs of the mitosis models we have in our laboratory. Click on a thumbnail to see the full photograph, then press the Back button on your browser to return to this page.

prophase.jpg (49457 bytes)                                         late prophase.jpg (56609 bytes)

                 prophase                                                            late prophase                   

                                         metaphase1.jpg (72930 bytes)                                                                      

                                                   metaphase                                                    

anaphase1.jpg (65326 bytes)        anaphase2.jpg (75380 bytes)        anaphase L.jpg (67681 bytes)       

       early anaphase                         anaphase                                     late anaphase

 Telophase1.jpg (195490 bytes)                    interphase L.jpg (61640 bytes)

                      telophase                                                        interphase

 

Ó M. W. Caprio, 2003