BIOL 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cell Division, Cell Growth, Meiosis

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Cell division is an integral part of the cell cycle, the life of a cell from its origin in the division of a parent cell until its own division into two daughter cells. Asexual reproduction of single-celled eukaryotes, such as an amoeba, includes mitosis and occurs by a type of cell division called binary fission, or division in half. Prokaryotes also reproduce by binary fission, but the process does not involve mitosis. A cell"s genetic information (packaged as dna) is it"s genome. In prokaryotes, the genome is often a single long dna molecule. In eukaryotes, the genome consists of a number of dna molecules. A human cell must copy or replicate about 2 m of dna and separate the two copies so that each daughter cell ends up with a complete genome. Every eukaryotic chromosome consists of one long, linear dna molecule associated with many proteins. Together, the complex is referred to as chromatin.

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