BSC 197 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Spindle Apparatus, Centrosome, Telophase

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In unicellular organisms, division of one cell reproduces the entire organism. Multicellular organisms depend on cell division for: development from 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. Most cell division results in daughter cells with identical genetic information, dna. A special type of division produces nonidentical daughter cells (gametes, or sperm and egg cells) All the dna in a cell constitutes the cell"s genome. A genome can consist of a single dna molecule (common in prokaryotic cells) or a number of dna molecules (common in eukaryotic cells) Dna molecules in a cell are packaged into chromosomes: dna is associated with histone proteins to form chromatin, the chromatin is further compacted and looped to form very dense chromosomes. Chromosome ends are referred to as telomeres. Each chromosome has a narrowing or pinched region called the centromere.

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