• Question: whats your favourite stage of mitosis

    Asked by merk532stot8 on 5 Nov 2025.
    • Photo: Erin Pallott

      Erin Pallott answered on 5 Nov 2025:

      It’s been a very long time since I studied things like cell division (A level was 10 years ago now!!), but I suppose anaphase, when the chromosomes are actively being pulled to opposite ends. I always thought that was really cool to think about how something so tiny is so coordinated!

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  • Photo: John CC

    John CC commented on :

    Yeah I’m with Erin, it’s got to be anaphase hasn’t it. They’ve queued up in the middle and being pulled apart into separate cells. BUT I suppose prophase is pretty good too because of homologous recombination with swapping bits of their legs. I’ll stick with anaphase though!