“The type of cell division in which a cell divides into two daughter cells, each with the same number of chromosomes as were present in the parent cell is called mitosis.”
In the 1880s, German biologist Walther Fleming observed that in a dividing cell, the nucleus passes through a series of changes which he called mitosis.
The process of mitosis is divided into two major phases.
The division of the nucleus known as karyokinesis is divided into four phases.
The division of cytoplasm is known as cytokinesis.