mitotic cell cycle
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The mitotic cell cycle is the process by which a cell duplicates its contents and divides into two identical daughter cells, with the phases of this cycle shown in the counter-clockwise diagram for animal cells. This process matters because it allows organisms to grow, repair damaged tissues, and reproduce.
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Research
41,724 papers- Regulation of Mitotic Exit by Cell Cycle Checkpoints: Lessons From Saccharomyces cerevisiae.Genes · 2020
- Core cell cycle machinery is crucially involved in both life and death of post-mitotic neurons.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2020
- Mitotic Shake-Off and Cell Cycle Synchronization.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
- Myt1 Kinase Couples Mitotic Cell Cycle Exit with Differentiation in Drosophila.Cell reports · 2020
- Evidence of cell cycle re-entry in post-mitotic, terminally differentiated feline neurons.Histochemistry and cell biology · 2022
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26 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Phases
- Overview
- Interphase
- Mitosis
- Preprophase (plant cells)
- Prophase
- Prometaphase
- Metaphase
- Anaphase
- Telophase
- Cytokinesis
- Function
- Variations
- Forms of mitosis
- Errors and other variations
- Diagnostic marker
- Related cell processes
- Cell rounding
- Mitotic recombination
- Evolution
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.5|Mitosis in the animal cell cycle (phases ordered counter-clockwise).
Mitosis () is a part of the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells in which replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei. Cell division by mitosis is an equational division which gives rise to genetically identical cells in which the total number of chromosomes is maintained. Mitosis is preceded by the S phase of interphase (during which DNA replication occurs) and is followed by telophase and cytokinesis, which divide the cytoplasm, organelles, and cell membrane of one cell into two new cells containing roughly equal shares of these cellular components. This process ensures that each daughter cell receives an identical set of chromosomes, maintaining genetic stability across cell generations. The different stages of mitosis altogether define the mitotic phase (M phase) of a cell cycle—the division of the mother cell into two daughter cells genetically identical to each other.