Where does mitosis occur in the human body?
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Mitosis occurs pretty much everywhere, the two major exceptions being red blood cells and nervous tissue. Aside from that name any living tissue in your body and there is mitosis occuring.
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At school I was taught that they repreduce by binary fission. I'm sure though that mitosis does ot occur due to the fact that bacteria does not possess a nucleus, therefore mitosis can't occur. \n\nI'm not sure over prokaryotic fission, but my answer would be D, if I had encountered that question.\n\nUse the following as an ideal answer: http://www.expage.com/binaryfission
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Mitosis:\n\nOccurs during cell division of somatic cells\n\nA full set of chromosomes is passed on to each daughter cell. This s the diploid number of chromosomess\n\nthe choromosomes and genes in each daughter cell are identical.\n\nIf new organisms are produced by mitosis is asexual reproduction they will all resemble each other and their parents. they are said to form a 'clone'.\n\n\nMeiosis;\n\nOccurs in the final stages of cell division leading to production of gametes.\n\nOnly half the chromosomes are passed on to the daughter cells, i.e. the haploid number of chromosomes.\n\nThe homologous chromosomes and their genes are radomly assorted between the gametes.\n\nNew organisms produced by meiosis in sexual reproduction will show variations from each other and form their own parents.
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Mitosis is when a cell divides into to identical daughter cells. They contain the same genome as the parent cell. The only way a daughter cell can be altered is through a mutation of DNA/RNA.
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mitosis:the process in cell division by which the nucleus divides, typically consisting of four stages: prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase.\n\nmeiosis: (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants) \n\nosmosis:Transmission of fluids from one cell into another; foundation of metabolism, led by the concentration of salt within a cell. Water can penetrate cell membranes, and strives to, where the concentration of salt is highest, in order to equalize the salt concentration in the body.
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Mitosis is the reproduction of body cells.  Meiosis is the reproduction of gamet of sex cells and only have 23 chromosomes in them.
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good way to remember - mitosis happens in my toes - asexual reproduction of cells, otherwise known as growth.\n\nMeiosis is the process by which sexual reproduction occurs, as in a combination of gametes (containing half the necessary genetic material) to create a new cell.\n\nAlleles are portions of genetic material that have a physical (or phenotypic) effect. These are usually sections of chromosomes, bundles of colied and intertwined DNA.\n\nMutation is any alteration of the Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or Ribonucleic acid (RNA). Evolution could not occur without mutation. Intelligent Design is a bunch of nonsense. It's all random and we are very lucky to be alive and sentient. Don't waste your intelligence on Yahoo Answers. I will now follow my own advice...
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it is NOT in mitosis!!!!\nmitosis happens AFTER G2\ncytokinesis is on of the final stages of mitosis!\n\neverything else is right :)
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look at your body. When you grow, cells divide and grow almost every second mitosis occurs in yuor own self. that is how you grow, repair yourself, and improve your general figure.
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During the metapase of mitosis.\n\nHere's a picture that should help you out!!\nhttp://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~ronald/392/Mitosis.JPG
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Because mitosis is the process where cells divide to perform such activities like cell replacement and repair. Their environment is fairly stable and not dangerous/harmful so they rarely divide. So the damaged cells can stay that way for life due to the slow/non-existent division of mitosis.
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Mitosis is the process of cell division.  Our cells are constantly dying off.  Mitosis allows living organisms to continue to survive by replacing the dying cells.
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Mitosis\n\nThe beginning of mitosis is called prophase. In early prophase, the centrosomes move toward opposite poles of the cell, organizing the spindle microtubules between them. The sister chromatids become visible in the nucleus as they condense. \n\nIn late prophase, the nuclear membrane breaks down and some of the spindle microtubules attach to the sister chromatids. The microtubules pull the chromatid pairs to the midline of the cell, or metaphase plate.\n\n•••\n\nThe chromatids remain lined up between the poles of the cell during metaphase.\n\n•••\n\nAnaphase begins when the pairs of sister chromatids separate. The separated chromatids are now called chromosomes, and move toward the poles of the cell.\n\n•••\n\nThe chromosomes arrive at the poles in telophase, and new nuclear membranes form around them.\n\n•••\n\nDivision of the cytoplasmic components is called cytokinesis. \n\nIn animal cells, cytokinesis occurs when a ring of actin and myosin filaments constricts the plasma membrane at the equator. Eventually, the parent cell is divided into two cells.\n\nAnimal Cytokinesis Movie (500K)\n\n\n\nIn plant cells, a number of small vesicles fuse at the metaphase plate to form the cell plate. Over time, the cell plate reaches across the cell and joins with the plasma membrane.\n\n•••\n\nThe process of mitosis and cytokinesis creates two separate cells, each with an identical set of chromosomes. After cytokinesis, the daughter cells will enter interphase.
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Meiosis only happens in sex cells. Mitosis happens in all other cells. When mitosis happens the cell splits in two. Meiosis forms 4 cells, in females only one is an egg, in males all four are sperm. Meiosis goes twice through every stage, ie   metaphase.
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Mitosis is the splitting of one cell into two daughter cells.  The phases can be summed up into the acronym IPMAT.\n\nI interphase - has a G1 or growth one phase where cellular growth and DNA translation occur.  S or Synthesis phase where DNA is translated assembled and condensed.  G2 or growth two phase where cytoplasmic growth occurs.\n\nP prophase - where DNA starts condensing into chromosomes and centromeres polarise the cell forming spindal fibers.\n\nM metaphase - is when DNA is fully condenced and chromosomes are in equatorial allignment\n\nA anaphase - karyokenesis is complete, new nuclear membranes form and cytokenesis begins furrowing.\n\nT telephase - clevage furrowing completes to initiate a new G1 phase.
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Meiosis:  \nprocess of cell division which occurs in the maturation of sex cells (Biology).\n\nMitosis:\nprocess of cell division resulting in two daughter cells which are identical to the original nucleus (Biology).
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meiosis (mīŏ'sĭs) , process of nuclear division in a living cell by which the number of chromosomes is reduced to half the original number. Meiosis occurs only in the process of gametogenesis, i.e., when the gametes, or sex cells (ovum and sperm), are being formed. Because fertilization consists of the fusion of two separate nuclei, one from each of the sex cells, meiosis is necessary to prevent the doubling of the chromosome number in each successive generation. An ordinary body cell is diploid; i.e., it contains two of each type of chromosome. The members of each pair are known as homologous chromosomes. An ovum or sperm is haploid; i.e., it contains only a single chromosome of each type and, therefore, half the number of chromosomes of the diploid cell. When the two haploid cells fuse, the diploid number is restored, and the plant or animal growing from the fertilized egg (zygote) has the usual diploid number of chromosomes in its cells. Just before meiosis each chromosome replicates to form two identical copies in the form of strands called chromatids joined together at a point called the centromere. In the first stage of meiosis, called the reduction division, the members of each pair of homologous chromosomes lie side by side and crossing over occurs. Each member of the pair then moves away from the other toward opposite ends of the dividing cell, and two nuclei, each with the haploid number of double-stringed chromosomes, are formed. Thus at the beginning of the second meiotic sequence, called the equational division, each cell nucleus contains one chromosome from each homologous pair and each chromosome is of two strands that are identical (except where crossing over has occurred). Then the chromosomes separate into their single strands which move toward opposite ends of the dividing nucleus. The result of meiotic division is four cells, each haploid, with one chromosome of each pair.