EBIO 1210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hydrogen Bond, S Phase, Maturation Promoting Factor

• School: CU-Boulder
• Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• Course: EBIO 1210
• Professor: Scott Taylor

Document Summary

The vast majority of cells in the adult body are not dividing. During reproduction of single-celled organisms: cell division is clearly important: fundamental to life as we know it. When cell divisions goes wrong: developmental malformations, cancer = uncontrolled cell division. How can our bodies have this without getting that: the good: growth, repair, replacement, renewal, development, the bad: cancer & tumors. Two major problems to solve in cell division: The actual feat of cell division: take on cell, make two out of it, both new cells need to have everything that the original cell had. Only getting cell division when and where it is beneficial to the organism . *clicker question: if an adult human being loses an arm in an accident, it does not re-grow. Development processes for growing limbs are not reactived when a limb is lost later in life.