Title: Activity ahead of lesson: Eukaryotic cell division- Mitosis
Course: Biochemistry > Section: Week 4 - Unit 1.6_ Cell Division

Purpose

You will have an overview of cell division in eukaryotes. You already heard about mitosis and meiosis.

Mitosis is a fundamental process for life. During mitosis, a cell duplicates all of its contents, including its chromosomes, and splits to form two identical daughter cells. Because this process is so critical, the steps of mitosis are carefully controlled by a number of genes. When mitosis is not regulated correctly, health problems such as cancer can result.

Over to you

Using your laptop, desktop or tablet follow this links and click to open the resource.

Be certain to note anything that you don’t understand.

Activity

Read this section to learn about the cell cycle and mitosis.

Be sure to also complete the multiple choice and free response questions.

Bring your notes to class so that you can participate in the conversation about cell cycle and mitosis.