Onion Roots and Cell Cycles!

I was asked to answer a couple of questions on onion roots and what stages a cell goes through...this is what I learned.  MITOSIS!

STAGE ONE!
Interphase Description: Mostly looks like a circle or oval with a whole in the middle...looks more like a bowl.  The cell looks like it is starting to try to come apart.

Interphase Definition:  A normal resting cell exists in a state called interphase in which the chromatin is undifferentiated in the heavily-stained nucleus, as illustrated above.

STAGE TWO!
Prophase Description:  Looks like a circe filled with with black spots.  Looks like everything inside is breaking up into to smaller pieces.

Prophase Definition:  The first phase of mitosis is known as the prophase, where the nuclear chromatin starts to become organized and condenses into thick strands that eventually become chromosomes.  Also there are two types of prophase early and late.

STAGE THREE!
Metaphase Description:  Looks like black lines that are trying to stretch apart.

Metaphase Definition:  metaphase where the chromosomes, attached to the kinetochore microtubules, begin to align in one plane (the metaphase plate) halfway between the spindle poles

STAGE FOUR!
Anaphase Description:  This phase takes the longest.  It looks like the pieces are bigger now and moving to one side. Two big pieces on each side.

Anaphase Definition:  anaphase. Almost immediately after the metaphase chromosomes are aligned at the metaphase plate, the two halves of each chromosome are pulled apart by the spindle apparatus and migrate to the opposite spindle poles.  Also there are two different types of anaphase early and late.

STAGE FIVE!
Telophase Description:  The last stage!  It looks like anaphase but more developed and some spaces between the pieces not as compressed as anaphase.

Telophase Definition:  When telophase is complete and the new cell membrane (or wall in the case of the onion root tips) is being formed, the nuclei have almost matured to the pre-mitotic state.