2.4 Cell Division Vocabulary

The series of events in which a cell grows, prepares for division, and divides to form two daughter cells.

• Cell Cycle

• Mitosis

• Cytokinesis

• Replication

The first stage of the cell cycle that takes place before cell division occurs, during which a cell grows and makes a copy of its DNA.

• Cell Cycle

• Interphase

• Cytokinesis

• Replication

The process by which a cell makes a copy of the DNA in its nucleus before cell division.

• Cell Cycle

• Interphase

• Cytokinesis

• Replication

The second stage of the cell cycle, during which the cell’s nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one set of DNA is distributed into each daughter cell.

• Mitosis

• Interphase

• Cytokinesis

• Replication

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The final stage of the cell cycle, in which the cell’s cytoplasm divides, distributing the organelles into each of the two new daughter cells.

• Mitosis

• Interphase

• Cytokinesis

• Replication

A series of connected events that happen in a specific order.

• Function

• Structure

• Maintain

• Sequence

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