How does a plant cell accomplish cytokinesis

Building a new cell wall with help from the Golgi apparatus

Explanation:

Cytokinesis is the process by which cells physically divide at the end of mitosis to produce two daughter cells from the parent cell.

In animal cells, this happens when a cleavage furrow is created in the cytoplasm, separating the two new nuclei (with replicated DNA) and the cytoplasmic components by pinching the cell in half.

However, the process is different in plant cells because they possess a cell wall, preventing the formation of a cleavage furrow. Instead a new cell wall forms to separate the daughter cells. This occurs through the following process:  The Golgi apparatus dispenses vesicles containing enzymes and structural proteins to the metaphase plate (centre of the cell where the cleavage furrow would form in an animal cells). There, the vesicles fuse and spread from the centre to the cell walls, forming a cell plate. The enzymes in the vesicles then use glucose to form a new cell wall.