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Mitosis and Meiosis Mitosis Mitosis is the type of division which is involved when it is essential that the daughter cells have the same genes as the parent cell and each other. Mitosis is important for growth and cell replacement. Like many things, cells wear out and die. If an organism is to live and grow it must reproduce. Therefore cell division serves an important role in an organism's health and growth. Cell division occurs rapidly in living organisms. For example, in an adult human, millions of cells divide each second to maintain homeostasis (the proper balance in cells). Cell division begins with interphase, when the cell replicates all of its genomic and cytoplasmic material and prepares for division. After preparation is complete, the cell enters the 4-phased mitosis. In mitosis, the cell sequentially goes through prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. Immediately after the completion of telophase, cytokenesis is instructed to end cell...

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