Eukaryotic Cell Cycle Flashcards
Interphase
in between when the cells are dividing
G1
cell growth and differentiation
-fully maturing to be what the cell is supposed to be
G0
- non-dividing stage
- doing the job it is supposed to do
- most of the time cells are in this phase
- only re-enter the cycle when we need more cells
- -nerve cells are forever in this stage
- -cancer cells never go into this stage
S
Synthesis of DNA; chromosomes are duplicated
-at the end of this stage we will have 46 duplicated chromosomes
G2
Cell growth
-making more of everything for when the cell divides into two, so there is enough for both cells
Mitosis
Equal division of the genetic material
-division of 1 diploid(2n) cell into 2 diploid(2n) cells
diploid cells
have two copies of every gene
-homologous pairs of all the chromosomes
What are the 4 stages to Mitosis Division?
- Prophase
- Metaphase
- Anaphase
- Telophase
Prophase
- Chromosomes condense
- spindles form
- centrioles go to opposite poles
- the nuclear envelope breaks down
- spindles attach to kineticore of each chromosome
- -begin to guide them to the center or equator of the cell
centrioles
proteins that guide spindles
Metaphase
- Chromosomes line up ate the equator of the cell
- -there is no order to the line up
Anaphase
- Chromosomes separate
- Spindles elongate- elongating the cell
- 46 unduplicated chromosomes are pulled towards the centrioles on different sides of the cell
Telophase
- begins when chromosomes reach centrioles
- chromosomes are released from the spindles
- chromosomes uncoil/uncondense
- new nuclear envelope is formed
Cytokinesis
- division of cytoplasm (dividing everything else up)
- micro-filaments pinch off the cells
- 2 daughter cells with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell (diploid/2n)
Meiosis (Meiotic Cell Division)
- Key to sexual reproduction
- production of sperm / eggs
- 1 diploid(2n) cell dividing into 4 haploid(n) cells
- 2 rounds of division (Meiosis I and Meiosis II)
- involves genetic recombination