Answer:
Isn't plagiarized, it's my own notes from a past assignment. Hope this helps
Explanation:
-Mitosis is a type of cell division, done by most of our body cells
-It’s important that cells divide because if they didn’t divide, you would not grow
-Mitosis is also great for repair of damage. Such as when a cut is healing, that is when the body goes through mitosis to create new cells.
-Mitosis is not a sex cell/ egg or sperm cell
-The goal in mitosis is to make identical cells, so you can replace exactly what you lost
-Our cells are not dividing all the time if they did always divide then it would just be rapid crazy growth. That is kind of what Cancer is, cancer is uncontrolled cell growth.
-In the cell cycle, the cells stay in Interphase for 90% of the time and mitosis for 10%
-Mitosis is a critical process since it is where it is going to divide and create more cells
-In our cells, there is something inside, an organelle called the nucleus. The nucleus holds our genetic information, DNA
-If you make new cells, you need the same DNA in the new cells as you did in your original
-DNA is condensed and organized into chromosomes, chromosomes are made of DNA and proteins
-Since there are normally forty-six chromosomes, there are forty-six chromosomes in most body cell nuclei
-Cells have to duplicate the chromosomes in interphase before mitosis
-When the chromosomes duplicate, we still say there are forty-six chromosomes as the sister chromatids are still attached
