Given below is a diagram representing a stage during the mitotic cell division

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Given below is a diagram representing a stage during the mitotic cell division. Study the diagram and answer the following questions:

1. Identify the stage by giving a suitable reason.
2. Is it a plant or an animal cell? Give a reason to support your answer.
3. Draw a neat, labelled diagram of the stage which follows the one shown in the diagram.
4. How many chromosomes will each daughter cell have after the completion of the above division?
5. Name the four nitrogenous bases.

Answer

(i) Anaphase. Chromatids are being pulled towards the opposite poles.

(ii) Animal cell. Cell wall is absent, centrioles are present, asters are present.

(iii) 

(iv) 4

(v) Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine.