The image shown is of a mule - the offspring of a donkey and a horse (strictly, a male donkey and a female horse). Mules are typically sterile and used as a beast of burden.
Given alongside is a diagram representing a stage during mitotic cell division. Study it carefully and answer the questions that follows:
(i) It is a plant cell or a animal cell? Give a reason to support your answer.
(ii) Identify the stage shown.
(iii) Name the stage that follows the one shown here. How is that stage identified?
(iv) How will you differentiate between mitosis and meiosis on the basis of the chromosome number in the daughter cells?