2. Why Do Cells Divide???
• DNA Overload - information overload too
much cell to make proteins for.
• Materials Exchange Problem – Surface Area
to Volume Ratio
• Injury
• Depletion of Cells from natural death.
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5. Human Chromosomes
23 Homologous Pairs
homologous pairs= a matching pair of
chromosomes, one from each parent
6. • Number of
Chromosomes chromosomes depends
on characteristics of
species
• Examples:
• Humans 46 (23 pr)
Earth worm 36 (18pr)
• Fly 8 ( 4 pr)
7. Time for cell division
depends on type of cell
bacteria completes cycle in 22 minutes
nerve cell some only once in entire life
liver cell may take 1 year
8. G1 ~ intense activity & cell growth
S phase ~ DNA replication ( will copy every
chromosome)
G2 ~ prepares for mitosis
usually shortest part of interphase
organelles needed for mitosis are made now
12. Prophase
• Mitosis begins (cell begins to divide)
• Centrioles (or poles) appear and begin to
move to opposite ends of the cell.
• Spindle fibers form between the poles.