Language Of The Nuclear Envelope

If this were a movie you would call this trick photography or science fiction. In the language of the cell it is science fact. Every time a cell divides this is just what happens to the nuclear envelope. During early mitosis (prophase) the nuclear envelope breaks up or disassembles. During telophase in late mitosis the nuclear envelope is re-assembled by the joining together of the tight fitting envelopes that have formed around the chromosomes. By doing this the resulting nuclear envelope is ‘sealed up’. Truly wondrous.