AP BIOLOGY

THE CELL

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE CELL

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Plant cells do not contain centrioles. When the plant cell divides through mitosis, what structure helps the plant cell to divide?
A
Cell Plate
B
Cell Wall
C
Vacuole
D
Chloroplasts
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Plant cell division is unique due to the presence of the cell wall and the lack of centrioles. Plant cells go through a process called cytokinesis, which is when the cellular material is divided.

Detailed explanation-2: -Land plants have an anastral mitotic spindle that forms in the absence of centrosomes, and a cytokinetic apparatus comprised of a predictive preprophase band (PPB) before mitosis and a phragmoplast after mitosis.

Detailed explanation-3: -Centrioles are absent from the cells of higher plants. When animal cells undergo mitosis they are considered by some to benefit from the presence of centrioles which appear to control spindle fibre formation and which later has an effect on chromosome separation.

Detailed explanation-4: -And when the chromosomes are condensing to undergo mitosis, the centrioles form the areas that mitotic spindle forms from. And those mitotic spindles go and attach to each of the chromosomes and pull the chromosomes to opposite ends of the cell to allow cytokinesis, then, to occur.

Detailed explanation-5: -Plant cells divide in two by constructing a new cell wall (cell plate) between daughter nuclei after mitosis. Golgi-derived vesicles are transported to the equator of a cytoskeletal structure called a phragmoplast, where they fuse together to form the cell plate.

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