Bacteria are unable to do mitosis because they are prokaryotes and lack a nucleus. Mitosis is a process of cell division that occurs in eukaryotic cells, which have a distinct nucleus that contains the genetic material. Bacteria, on the other hand, have a single circular chromosome that floats freely in the cytoplasm. Therefore, they undergo a form of cell division called binary fission, where the chromosome is replicated and divided equally between two daughter cells.
