Cell Life Cycle

Replication

The double helix is unzipped and new nucleotides bind to their complementary bases on the free strands, forming two duplicates of the original

Cell Cycle

series of events called interphase where cells perform normal functions and prepare for the division where cells grow and create copies of their organelles, replicate DNA, and synthesize proteins, and then mitosis and cytokinesis where it goes through interphase again and the G0

Mitosis

The process through which a cell divides the genetic information within its nucleus into two identical copies within independent nuclei

Mitotic Spindle

prophase, a network of microtubules is formed by pericentriolar material in centrosomes which attach t and pull apart chromatids

Meiosis

involves two cells' divisions instead of one, and the process produces four genetically unique cells rather than two identical clones of the parent (haploids only contain half of the full 46 chromosomes)

Gametes

the male and female sex cells are produced through meiosis in the ovaries and testes