Both Plant and animal cells undergo cell division. In-plant mitosis, cell division in induced by a plant hormone known as cytokinin. The process occurs in the meristem. The shape of the cell does not undergo any form of change. Mitosis apparatus in plants lack asters and spindle is ancestral.

It also lacks centrioles. Animal cell become rounded before cell division starts. There is no specific known hormone that induces mitosis. During the process, centrosomes are formed. Mitosis apparatus in animal cell division consists of asters. Spindles degenerate before the beginning of cytokinesis, and it also occurs throughout the body.