In order to heal an injury, your body needs to replace damaged cells with healthy new ones...and mitosis plays a crucial role in this process! Mitosis is a process of cell division that helps you stay alive and healthy. In other words, in the world of cell biology, mitosis is kind of a big deal!
But like with anything science-related, mitosis can be sort of confusing when you first try to understand it. The key idea is that the process of mitosis involves four phases, or steps, that you need to understand if you want to understand how mitosis works.
In this article, we’re going to do the following things to break down the four steps of mitosis for you and help you get acquainted with the mitosis phases:
- Briefly define mitosis and eukaryotic cells
- Break down the four phases of mitosis, in order
- Provide mitosis diagrams for the stages of mitosis
- Give you five resources for learning more about the phases of mitosis
Now, let’s dive in!


