AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mitosis and meiosis take place in the cell nuclei. Both involve cell division. Both the processes occur in the M-phase of the cell cycle.

Detailed explanation-2: -Multiple Stages Both mitosis and meiosis are multistage processes. The stages are interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. The same general processes occur in each of these stages for mitosis and meiosis. Interphase is cell growth and DNA replication in preparation for cell division.

Detailed explanation-3: -Meiosis and mitosis both have a prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase and cytokinesis.

Detailed explanation-4: -Before entering meiosis I, a cell must first go through interphase. This is the same interphase that occurs before mitosis. The cell grows, copies its chromosomes and prepares for division during the G 1start subscript, 1, end subscript phase, S phase, and G 2start subscript, 2, end subscript phase of interphase.

Detailed explanation-5: -The interphase is the period when the cell is in a non-dividing state and this can be in different stages: the first gap (G1) between the last mitosis and the S phase (phase of DNA synthesis) and the second gap (G2) between the completion of the S phase and the next mitosis (M).