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Mo4-L4a: What is the Cell Cycle? Mo4-L4b: What is the Mitotic Phase?

Sister Sister
Chromatids Chromatids Mo4-L4b What is the Mitotic Phase?

KEY CONCEPTS:
1. What happens during the mitosis cell cycle?
2. Why is the result of the cell cycle important?
Centromere

Vocabulary A-Z

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Homologous Homologous Homologous
chromosomes chromosome 1 chromosome 2 Mitosis

Key Concept a process during which the nucleus and its contents
divide.
What Is the Cell Cycle?
Mitosis
What happens during the interphase cell cycle? Prophase Anaphase Completed

Interphase Metaphase Telophase

Cytokinesis
a process during which the cytoplasm and its
contents divide.

Daughter Cell
the two new cells that result from mitosis and
cytokinesis.
SUMMARY

What Is the Cell Cycle?
During interphase, most cells go through
periods of rapid growth and replication of
organelles, copying DNA, and preparation
for cell division.

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