The most obvious difference between interphase and mitosis involves the appearance of a cell's chromosomes. During interphase, individual chromosomes are not visible, and the chromatin appears ...

This process, called meiosis, results in gametes (egg and sperm cells) with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cells. Chromosomes also play a role in regulating gene expression. The ...

Mitosis is a process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells that occurs when a parent cell divides to produce two identical daughter cells. During cell division, mitosis refers specifically to ...