Cell Cycle

What is the cell cycle?

• The gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form.
• The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
• The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
• The series of events that take place in a cell leading to its division and duplication of its DNA to produce two daughter cells.

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Which part of the Cell Cycle takes the longest?

• Interphase
• Mitosis
• Prophase
• Cytokinesis

What happens in the first part of Interphase?

• Mitosis
• Cell Growth
• DNA Replication
• Anaphase

What does DNA Replication mean?

• DNA is made.
• DNA makes new cells. 
• DNA copies itself.
• DNA starts the cell cycle.

The three stages of the cell cycle are __________, mitosis, and

cytokinesis.

• interphase

• anaphase

• metaphase

• prophase

During what phase of the cell cycle does cell division occur?

• Interphase
• M phase
• S phase
• G2 phase

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