The+Cell+Cycle



Summary: The cell cycle is the process a cell goes through to grow and reproduce. It reproduces by copying the original cell's DNA and chromosomes before splitting. This ensures that the new cell will not die. Mitosis is the process of cell seperation. The cell slowly sperates into two new cells, and when it is finished it goes through cytokinesis. Prokaryotic cells are easy to seperate, because they are not complex, while eukaryotic cells are harder to seperate since they are more complex. Prokaryotic cells seperate by binary fission, and eukaryotic cells duplicate their chromosomes and are held together in the centromere. That's what happened in this section of Chapter 2 Section 3, The Cell Cycle.

Mitosis Video: Watch this Video to Learn about Mitosis!

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 * This is a picture of the process of binary fission.**