Q:

MCQ - Events in the Mitotic cycle

The following question confused me at first

However, I presumed that it must be in comparison to meiosis. In that case D would be correct.
However, the correct answer is A.
How can this be? I know that in mitosis it is the chromatids that are 'pulled away' to opposite poles. In meiosis, this is whole chromatids but anaphase still occurs.
I suspect I don't understand the question. Where have I gone wrong in my reasoning?

A:

Cell cycle can be divided into two phases:
1. Interphase
2. M-phase(Mitotic phase)
Note: M-phase can also mean Meiotic phase but it is not the full form of the acronym.
So M-phase in mitosis has four phases:

Prophase
Metaphase
Anaphase(your answer)
Telophase

A mitotic cycle:

The rest of the options:
B. Cytokinesis 

Cytoplasmic division begins during or after the late stages of nuclear division in mitosis and meiosis. 

Your question doesn't seem to consider cytokinesis as a part of M-phase (i.e to be occurring during the late karyokinesis). So it has to be ruled out.(Making some assumptions as this is a key to reaching the single correct answer in MCQs, if not this would have had two right answers.)
C. DNA replication - happens in S-phase of interphase
D. Interphase (certainly not the one)
Source: ncert 

