BIO 115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Cell Culture, Signal Transduction, Chemotherapy

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In prokaryotes, the genome is often a single long dna molecule. In eukaryotes, the genome consists of several dna molecules: dna molecules are packaged into chromosomes. The chromatids are initially attached by adhesive proteins along their lengths. The fertilized egg, or zygote, underwent cycles of mitosis and cytokinesis to produce a fully developed multicellular human made up of 200 trillion somatic cells. These processes continue every day to replace dead and damaged cells: in contrast, gametes are produced only in gonads (ovaries or testes) by a variation of cell division called meiosis. Meiosis yields four nonidentical daughter cells, each with half the chromosomes of the parent. In humans, meiosis reduces the number of chromosomes from 46 to 23. Fertilization fuses two gametes together and doubles the number of chromosomes to 46 again. Concept 12. 2: the mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle alternates with the much longer interphase.

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