Andrea and Kamar are inspecting microscope slides. Each slide shows a cell or cells. The students’ task is to identify which stage of the cell cycle each slide shows. Kamar reads, “Squamous cells from human cheek swab.”

“I recognize this one. It's in interphase,” says Andrea, peering into the microscope.

Based on Andrea's observation, what might have been happening in the cells at the time they were collected?

sells were copying/duplicateing

Explanation:

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interphase

the period of cell growth when the cell synthesizes new molecules and organelles. the cell is not dividing and it constitutes the majority of the time spent in the cell cycle

prophase

changes occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm. the chromatin condenses to form structures (sister chromatids) visible with a light microscope and the mitotic spindle begins to form, but the nucleus is still in tact

prometaphase

the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the sister chromatids

metaphase

all the cell's duplicated chromosomes are lined up at an imaginary plane equidistant between the poles of the mitotic spindle

anaphase

begins when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of the two poles of the cell

telophase

the daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell

cytokinesis

the division of a cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells. usually occurs during telophase during mitosis. this and mitosis make up to mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle