Description of Stages of Mitosis

Question 1

What happens in prophase?

Answer 1

Nuclear membrane disappears
DNA condenses into chromosomes

Question 2

What happens in metaphase?

Answer 2

Double stranded chromosomes line up at center
Spindle fibers go for centromere

Question 3

What happens in anaphase?

Answer 3

Spindle fibers pull double stranded chromosomes into single stranded chromosomes
Pull chromosomes to opposite side of cell

Question 4

What happens in telophase?

Answer 4

Nuclear membrane reforms around single stranded chromosomes
There are two nuclei in one cell