BIOL150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Chromosome Abnormality, Unglued, Sydney Brenner

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Cell division involves an orderly sequence of events in which cell. Details of cell cycle vary with organism, and different times in an duplicates its contents and divides in two cell cycle organisms life: unicellular, metazoans. Many cell divisions required to generate new organism from fertilized egg. Replicated dna must be accurately distributed (segregated) to. Most cells also duplicate their other macromolecules and daughter cells organelles and double in size before they divide. Multiple linear chromosomes housed in nucleus (two copies of. Two copies of each essential to survival. Highly variable in number: 1 pair 500 pairs. Complex packaging of dna: typical human chromosome 140 million nucleotides long. Chromosomes become visible only in cells about to divide. Interphase: cell grows, produces proteins and organelles, copies its. Subdivisions of interphase: g1: gap 1 most of a cell"s growth, s: synthesis dna copies, g2: cell completes preparation preparations for mitosis, subdivided according to state of chromosomes.

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