Mitosis - Karyokinesis

Description:

Karyokinesis is also called indirect nuclear division because the nucleus passes through complicated sequence of events before forming two daughter nuclei.

The process of karyokinesis is a continuous process without any pauses in between.

Karyokinesis has been divided into four phases or stages depending on the completion or beginning of a specific event. The phases are: prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase.

A fifth stage called prometaphase has also been recognized by some workers.