To add a number of years, months and/or days, use the DATE function. Note: the DATE function accepts three arguments: year, month and day. Excel knows that 6 + 2 = 8 = August has 31 days and rolls over to the next month (23 August + 9 days = 1 September).
Letâs multiply the percentage of cells in each stage by one-thousand, four-hundred and forty minutes to calculate how long the cell spends in each stage. We find that in a 24-hour period, the cells we observed spend 1000.2 minutes in interphase, 180 minutes in prophase, 128.2 minutes in metaphase, 77.8 minutes in anaphase, and 51.8 minutes in telophase.
Cell Cycle: Cells go through phases or a cell cycle during their life before they divide to form new cells. The cell cycle includes 2 main parts --- interphase, and cell division. Cell division includes mitosis (nuclear division) and cytokinesis (division of the cytoplasm). Interphase is the longest part of a cell's life cycle and is called the resting stage because the cell isn't dividing.