BIOLOGY 172 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Cleavage Furrow, Photobleaching, Golgi Apparatus
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You must first duplicate everything and then the cell will divide. If one cell is considered the whole organism, then cell division is the production of a new cell. We use mitosis and cell cycle for growth. Lots of mitotic division leads to a fully grown human. Step 1: duplicate everything, including dna (goes for both mitosis and meiosis) It starts of with 2 chromosomes with each being a double stranded dna. The dna is then replicated to form sister chromatids. In mitosis, the chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell and the sister chromatids are separated. So each daughter cell (the new cell after division) will have the same chromosome and the same amount of it. Mitosis generates the exact replica of the cell (in terms of dna) In the first division, rather than the sister chromatids separating, we separate homolongs (basically we separate the two different pairs of sister chromatids)