Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

Scientists at EMBL have captured how human chromosomes fold into their signature rod shape during cell division, using a ...

How did early biologists unravel this complex dance of chromosomes? The most obvious difference between interphase and mitosis involves the appearance of a cell's chromosomes. During interphase ...

Interphase is the period between cell divisions. During this time, chromosomes replicate—each DNA strand unzips into two strands while free-floating bases attach to the unzipped strands.

During interphase, the cell's DNA is not condensed and is loosely distributed. A stain for heterochromatin (which indicates the position of chromosomes) shows this broad distribution of chromatin ...

Interphase The cell spends most of its life in this phase. The DNA in chromosomes copies itself ready for mitosis. Prophase The DNA in chromosomes and their copies condenses to become more visible.

Each centrosome pushes the chromosome from each side until they are lined up ... the images and information about the basic functions of the cytoskeleton during interphase (cell shape and transport).

The genetic information within each of these daughter cells is identical. A human cell contains 46 chromosomes. To simplify our illustration, we'll show only four. Though the genetic code of a ...