And then we have cytokinesis. But actually cytokinesis, as we'll see in just a moment begins in the process of telephase in the phase of mitosis, known as telephase. So let's go through each one of these individual phases of mitosis and let's describe what takes place in each one of these phases beginning with ProPhase. Now recall in the first stage of the cell cycle of our animal cell known as interphase the DNA is continually being transcribed into RNA so that we use the RNA to form the proteins that are needed by the cell. And that means our DNA and interface exists predominantly in the chromatin states. However, in mitosis we no longer actually need to transcribe or replicate our DNA.