You are watching a cell undergo mitosis under the microscope. After the cell is finished replicating, you notice that one of the daughter cells only has 45 chromosomes while the other has 47. Something must have gone wrong! Which stage of mitosis would you suspect the error had occurred? prophase O metaphase anaphase telophase

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You are watching a cell undergo mitosis under the microscope. After the cell is finished replicating, you notice that one of the daughter cells only has 45 chromosomes while the
other has 47. Something must have gone wrong! Which stage of mitosis would you suspect the error had occurred?
prophase
metaphase
anaphase
telophase
Transcribed Image Text:You are watching a cell undergo mitosis under the microscope. After the cell is finished replicating, you notice that one of the daughter cells only has 45 chromosomes while the other has 47. Something must have gone wrong! Which stage of mitosis would you suspect the error had occurred? prophase metaphase anaphase telophase
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