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Meiosis
Sexual reproduction requires fertilization, a union of two cells from two individual organisms. If those two cells each…
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Life Cycles of Sexually Reproducing Organisms
Fertilization and meiosis alternate in sexual life cycles. What happens between these two events depends on the organism.…
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The Red Queen Hypothesis
There is no question that sexual reproduction provides evolutionary advantages to organisms that employ this mechanism to produce…
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Introduction to the Cellular Basis of Inheritance
Figure 7.1 Each of us, like these other large multicellular organisms, begins life as a fertilized egg. After…
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Mitotic Spindle Apparatus
The precise timing and formation of the mitotic spindle is critical to the success of eukaryotic cell division.…
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Prokaryotic Cell Division
Prokaryotes such as bacteria propagate by binary fission. For unicellular organisms, cell division is the only method to…
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Cancer and the Cell Cycle
Cancer is a collective name for many different diseases caused by a common mechanism: uncontrolled cell division. Despite the redundancy…
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Control of the Cell Cycle
The length of the cell cycle is highly variable even within the cells of an individual organism. In…
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Cytokinesis
Cytokinesis is the second part of the mitotic phase during which cell division is completed by the physical separation…
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The Cell Cycle
The cell cycle is an ordered series of events involving cell growth and cell division that produces two…
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