BIOL 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Sister Chromatids, Characteristic Class, Cell Division

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The ability of organisms to produce more of their own kind best distinguishes living things from nonliving matter. The continuity of life is based on the reproduction of cells, or cell division. Division of one cell reproduces the entire organism. Multicellular organisms depend on cell division for: development form a fertilized cell, growth, repair. Cell division is an integral part of the cell cycle, the life of a cell from formation to its own division. Concept 12. 1: most cell division results in genetically identical daughter cells. Most cell division results in daughter cells with identical genetic information, dna. The exception is meiosis, a special type of division that can produce sperm and egg cells. All the dna in a cell = genome. A genome can consist of a single dna molecule (common in prokaryotes) or a number of dna molecules (common in eukaryotes) Dna molecules in a cell are packaged into chromosomes.

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