Mitosis

Paul Andersen describes the process of mitosis. He begins by discussing the importance of the cell cycle in development, regeneration, asexual reproduction and wound healing. He differentiates between haploid and diploid cells and describes the structure of the chromosome. He then moves through all the phases of mitosis; interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase and cytokinesis.

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Artist: CosmicD
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[Weisenberg]

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[gretchenivy]

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[cosmetejeda]

Brain and muscle cells only go through mitosis once as we are developing as embryos, afterwards they stay in a perpetual G0 state, meaning that we usually stay with the same number of brain cells for the rest of our life. The reason why neurons and other cells such as these ones don't divide is because a cell has to stop performing its function as it undergoes mitosis, which is bad if the cell dividing is a neuron. Imagine if the neurons in your body begin to divide and stop performing their functions, you won't be able to send an electrical stimuli from your brain to major organs and your heart will stop beating, you're lungs will stop breathing, your brain itself will stop working and so on. That's why we have a limited number of these cells and they can't perpetually divide like the rest.

[lori]

10:44
The sound of the cytoplasm dividing is rather horrifying, almost demonic.

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