CELL DIVISION

Question 1

what does cell division in the cell cycle involve?

Answer 1

a process called mitosis which produces two identical cells

Question 2

what does cell division by mitosis do

Answer 2

produces the additional cells needed for growth and development in multi cellular organisms

Question 3

stage one of the cell cycle

Answer 3

cell grows, increase their mass, increase the number of sub cellular structures (mitochondria, ribosomes, chloroplast), replicate their DNA to form two copies of each chromosome

Question 4

stage two of the cell cycle

Answer 4

mitosis: one set of chromosomes is pulled to each end of the dividing cell, the nucleus divides

Question 5

stage three of the cell cycle

Answer 5

cytoplasm and cell membranes divide to form two identical daughter cells

Question 6

why is cell division in the body important

Answer 6

around 300 million of our cells die each minute so cell division provides us with more cells