AQA GCSE Combined Science Trilogy · 8464
Specification 4.1.2.2, 4.6.1.1, 4.6.1.2 · Paper 1, Paper 2
The stage of the cell cycle in which one set of chromosomes is pulled to each end of the cell and the nucleus divides.
Revise: Mitosis and the cell cycleDuring mitosis, the chromosome copies separate. One complete set of chromosomes is pulled to each end of the cell, and the nucleus divides. Each new nucleus therefore receives the same genetic information.
- Revise: Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
- Revise: Meiosis
A type of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells with the same chromosome number as the parent cell.