AP BIOLOGY

CELL DIVISION

THE CELL CYCLE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Cell division in animal, plant, fungi, and protists cells is called ____
A
Mitosis
B
Meiosis
C
Hydrolysis
D
Dehydration synthesis
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mitosis varies between organisms. For example, animal cells undergo an “open” mitosis, where the nuclear envelope breaks down before the chromosomes separate, whereas fungi undergo a “closed” mitosis, where chromosomes divide within an intact cell nucleus.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mitosis is a cell division that occurs in animal cells where each mother cell divides into 2 daughter cells. The number of chromosomes in the mother cell is identical to that in each resulting daughter cell. This is why mitosis is sometimes called an ” Identical Reproduction of Cells”.

Detailed explanation-3: -Animals and plants, for example, are related more distantly to each other than to fungi. Nevertheless, both undergo open mitosis, whereas most fungi retain an intact nuclear envelope during division.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mitosis is the process of cell division wherein the chromosomes replicate and get equally distributed into two daughter cells. The chromosome number in each daughter cell is equal to that in the parent cell, i.e., diploid. Hence, mitosis is known as equational division.

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