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What are the various stages of miotic cell division in plants and mention its significance

Mitosis is known as the somatic cell division as it occurs in the somatic cells for vegetative growth. It is an equational type of cell division, resulting in two daughter cells equal with number of chromosomes and identical genes as that of parent cell.

By |2011-01-10T23:48:04+00:00January 10, 2011|Biology|Comments Off on What are the various stages of miotic cell division in plants and mention its significance

What are Plastids and mention its types and functions ?

Plastids are double membraned organelles which are found in plant cells only. They are usually spherical or discoldal in shape and their average size is 4 to 6 um. A plastid shows tow distinct regions-grana and stroma Grana are stacks of membrane-bound, flattened, discold sacs containing chlorophyll molecules.

By |2011-01-03T07:33:35+00:00January 3, 2011|Biology|Comments Off on What are Plastids and mention its types and functions ?
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