Not so divided: the common basis of plant and animal cell division.
Plant cells do not have centrioles and their mitosis is frequently likened to the chromosome-based mechanism seen in acentriolar animal cells. However, this is a false analogy. Although plants can use this mechanism, they generally divide by a method that uses bipolar mitotic caps, which is more similar to the canonical centrosome-based method of animals.
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK. clive.lloyd@bbsrc.ac.uk
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D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division; D016764:Cell Polarity; D008938:Mitosis; D059828:Plant Cells