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Phragmoplast

phragmoplast

(Science: plant biology) Central region of mitotic spindle of a plant cell at telophase, in which vesicles gather and fuse to form the cell plate, apparently guided by spindle microtubules.


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plant and animal mitosis

... in the interphase. In plant cells cell wall is present so there are a few more things needed to be done. Among others preprophase ring and phragmoplast must be formed. Golgi body takes part in cell division, since it is the place where substrates for cell wall are synthetised. Then they ...

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by SU_reptile
Sun May 28, 2006 9:04 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: plant and animal mitosis
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plant and animal mitosis

... involves cell plate formation but animal cell involves cleavage furrow formation.....there are many complicated differences like formation of phragmoplast in plants(but not in animals),no centrioles in plants(but present in animals) etc....

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by rg
Mon May 22, 2006 5:38 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: plant and animal mitosis
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