Labeled Plant Cells in Mitosis

Plant cells from interphase to telophase, a root tip to practice on, and the cell plate.

Labeled Plant Cells in Mitosis

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Write the name of each numbered stage or part.Answer key

  1. Interphase
  2. Prophase
  3. Metaphase
  4. Anaphase
  5. Telophase
  6. Cell wall
  7. Nucleus
  8. Chromosomes
  9. Spindle fibers
  10. Cell plate
  11. Interphase
  12. Metaphase
  13. Prophase
  14. Anaphase
  15. Interphase
  16. Prophase
  17. Telophase
  18. Anaphase
  19. Interphase
  20. Metaphase
  21. Cell plate
  22. Vesicles
  23. Phragmoplast
  24. New cell wall
  25. Daughter cells
  26. Cleavage furrow
  27. Contractile ring

Drawn for this site on 2026-10-01 from plain geometry. Licence: own work.

Each numbered ring is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a stage or part is answered.

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The stages, in order 5

  1. Interphase The cell is not dividing. The nucleus is whole, with a nucleolus inside.
  2. Prophase The chromosomes condense into short, thick threads. They can now be seen one by one.
  3. Metaphase The chromosomes line up across the middle of the cell. Spindle fibers hold them from both ends.
  4. Anaphase The sister chromatids are pulled to opposite ends. Each one is now a chromosome of its own.
  5. Telophase A nucleus forms again at each end. In a plant cell a cell plate starts between them.

Parts of the dividing cell 5

  1. Cell wall A rigid layer around every plant cell. A dividing plant cell builds a new one across its middle.
  2. Nucleus It holds the chromosomes. In interphase they are spread out and cannot be told apart.
  3. Chromosomes Threads of DNA, each already copied. In prophase they shorten and thicken until they can be seen.
  4. Spindle fibers Microtubules that move the chromosomes. In a plant cell there are no centrioles at their ends.
  5. Cell plate The start of the new wall between the two nuclei. It grows outward from the middle.

Which stage? Root tip cells 10

  1. Interphase A whole, round nucleus with a nucleolus inside. Most cells of a root tip look like this.
  2. Metaphase The chromosomes form one line across the middle. Spindle fibers reach them from both ends.
  3. Prophase Thick threads fill the nucleus. The chromosomes have condensed but have not lined up.
  4. Anaphase Two sets of chromosomes are moving apart. Each set heads for one end of the cell.
  5. Interphase A whole, round nucleus with a nucleolus inside. Most cells of a root tip look like this.
  6. Prophase Thick threads fill the nucleus. The chromosomes have condensed but have not lined up.
  7. Telophase Two new nuclei, one at each end. A cell plate is forming between them.
  8. Anaphase Two sets of chromosomes are moving apart. Each set heads for one end of the cell.
  9. Interphase A whole, round nucleus with a nucleolus inside. Most cells of a root tip look like this.
  10. Metaphase The chromosomes form one line across the middle. Spindle fibers reach them from both ends.

Cytokinesis 7

  1. Cell plate Vesicles fuse here to form a plate. It grows outward until it meets the side walls.
  2. Vesicles Small sacs from the Golgi apparatus. They carry wall material to the middle and fuse there.
  3. Phragmoplast Microtubules on both sides of the cell plate. Vesicles travel along them to the plate.
  4. New cell wall The finished wall between the two daughter cells. It forms where the cell plate was.
  5. Daughter cells Two cells where there was one. Each has its own nucleus.
  6. Cleavage furrow The groove where an animal cell pinches in. It deepens until the cell is two.
  7. Contractile ring A ring of protein filaments under the membrane. It tightens and pinches the cell in two.

How this list was compiled: Every name checked on 2026-10-01 against Kimball's Biology Pages: Mitosis; Wikipedia: Mitosis, Cytokinesis and Cell plate, text only; Nature Education, Scitable: Replication and Distribution of DNA during Mitosis, and cytokinesis; two plant cell biology books and two school and college textbooks read on archive.org by full-text search. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-10-01 from plain geometry; nothing traced. Licence: own work

How it works

A plant cell divides inside its wall, so it stays box-shaped all the way through. The first drawing shows the stages in order, starting with an interphase plant cell labeled with its nucleus and cell wall.

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Plant cell mitosis labeled on a root tip

Cells divide just behind the tip of a growing root, so a stained onion root tip is a common school slide. On the second drawing ten cells are marked. Press Quiz me: a cell lights up and you choose its stage. The root tip cells are the third round.

The third drawing is a plant cell cytokinesis diagram

Vesicles fuse in the middle of the cell to build a cell plate, which becomes the new wall. An animal cell is drawn below it: with no wall, it pinches in at a cleavage furrow.

  • One line of chromosomes across the middle is metaphase. Two lines moving apart are anaphase.

Questions and answers

How is mitosis different in a plant cell?

The stages are the same. A plant cell has no centrioles at the ends of its spindle, and it does not pinch in two: it builds a cell plate across the middle, which becomes a new wall.

What does a cytokinesis in plant cells diagram show?

A cell plate forming between the two new nuclei. Vesicles from the Golgi apparatus travel along the microtubules of the phragmoplast and fuse in the middle. The plate grows outward to the side walls and becomes the new cell wall.

What does an interphase cell look like in a root tip?

It has a whole, round nucleus with a nucleolus inside, and no separate chromosomes can be seen. Most cells in the field are in interphase.

Why is a root tip used to study mitosis?

A root grows from a region of dividing cells just behind its tip, so one slide holds cells in several stages.

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