How are plant cell and animal cell mitosis similar?

Answer 1

They're basically the same, except in telophase in plant cells, where a cell wall grows between the two new daughter cells, and when the cell wall is big enough, the daughter cells split from eachother.

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Answer 2

The actual mitosis part of the cell cycle is identical in plant and animal cells: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase are all identical. The cytokinesis part that follows mitosis is the different part of the process. Animal cells have the plasma membrane pinched in around the middle in an indentation called the cleavage furrow. This keeps pinching in more and more until there are two separate daughter cells. It's kind of like tightening a belt further and further until it goes all the way through the middle. Plant cells form a cell plate in the middle. The new cell walls and plasma membranes are formed along this cell plate. The other difference in the process is that plant cells have no centrioles.

So what's the same? The DNA is copied during interphase. During prophase the chromosome form as the chromatin coils up and condenses, the spindle forms, and the nucleoli and nuclear envelope disappear. During metaphase the chromosomes are pulled to the equator of the spindle and have their centromeres attached to the equator. During anaphase the spindle fibers pull on the centromeres until the centromeres split apart. The fibers pull sister chromatids to opposite poles of the spindle. During telophase the spindle fibers disappear, the chromosomes uncoil to become chromatin again, and the nucleoli and nuclear envelope reappear.

Answer 3

Plant Mitosis Phases