Assuming that a normal human cell takes 720 minutes to complete one mitotic cycle, indicate the number of minutes that the cell spends in each stage of mitosis.

Interphase is the phase before it starts mitosis in which the cell grows and replicates both it’s DNA and organelles. This phase takes up 78% of the cell’s lifetime = 561.6 minutes

Prophase takes up around 14% of the cell’s life cycle = 102.8 minutes

Metaphase involves 4% of the total mitosis cycle so = 28.8 minutes

Anaphase is the shortest phase of mitosis, taking up only 0.8% of the cycle = 5.2 minutes

Telophase is the final phase of the mitosis cell cycle and lasts around 3% of the total time = 21.6 minutes