Which cytoskeletal elements are involved in the processes of mitosis and cytokinesis, and how are they involved?
(HINT: All three elements will be included in a correct answer). Organize your essay so that it treats these elements in the general order in which they become involved. beginning with the start of mitosis. Mitosis begins with a stage known as prophase. Two cytoskeletal elements are involved during prophase, and which one is involved first is difficult to say. The centrosomes start to migrate apart early in prophase. As they do, a spindle apparatus begins to form from the centrosomes, also known as the microtubule organizing centers. The spindle apparatus is composed of microtubules, which are made of tubulins. Some of these microtubules will ultimately attach to the kinetochores on each centromere, and these kinetochore spindle fibers will move the chromosomes to an imaginary plane called the metaphase plate. During anaphase, these same microtubules will help move the chromosomes to opposite poles of the spindle apparatus. Also during prophase, the nuclear envelope starts to disintegr
