1. The Cell Cycle
“Where a cell exists, there must have been a preexisting cell, just as an animal arises only from an animal and the plant only from a plant.”
- R. Virchow 1855

2. The role of cell division

3. Asexual Reproduction
Involves the distribution of identical genetic material (DNA) to two daughter cells.
Prokaryotic cells = Binary fission
Eukaryotic cells = Mitosis

4. Cellular organization of genetic material
Genome: a cell’s endowment of DNA, or it’s genetic information.
When cell is not dividing DNA is tangled mass called chromatin
At cell division, chromatin condenses and are now visible as chromosomes.
Prokaryotic Cells: single long continuous DNA molecule
Eukaryotic Cells: Many linear DNA molecules, each chromosome is one continuous DNA molecule though

5. Eukaryotic chromosomes determine cell type
Every eukaryotic species has a characteristic number of chromosomes in each cells nucleus.
Types of cells based on chromosome #
Diploid: (2n) cells that have two sets of each chromosome (homologous pairs)
Found in somatic cells (Body cells) of eukaryotes (few exceptions)
Humans 2n=46, crayfish 2n=200

6. Cell Type Based on Chromosome #
Haploid: (n) cells that have one of each pair of chromosomes
Many eukaryotic organisms these are the gametes (sex cells)
Humans n=23, crayfish n=100

8. In order for cells to asexually divide they must retain their specific chromosome number
Chromosomes must be copied before cells divide
Sister chromatids= each one connected at centromere.

9. Distribution of Chromosomes During Eukaryotic cell division

10. QOD
Starting with a fertilized egg (zygote), a series of five cell divisions would produce an early embryo with how many cells?
How many chromatids are in a duplicated chromosome?
A chicken has 78 chromosomes in its somatic cells; how many chromosomes did the chicken inherit from each parent? How many chromosomes are in each of the chicken's gametes? How many chromosomes will be in each somatic cell of the chicken's offspring? How many chromosomes are in a “set”?

11. Answers
1) 32 cells 2
39; 39; 78; 39

12. The cell cycle Has 2 over-all stages
Interphase: Majority of cells life has 3 phases
G1 = metabolic activity (photosynthesis, respiration, transcription/translation)
S = DNA replication Chromatin  sister chromatids
G2 = preparation cell division (centrioles)
M stage: entire cell division (includes mitosis or meiosis and Cytokinesis)
Mitosis = nuclear division, including contents (DNA)
Cytokinesis = Division of organelles, cytoplasm, and plasma membrane

14. Phases of Mitosis

15. Phases of Mitosis

16. Cytokinesis In Plants and Animals

17. Plant Mitosis

18. Prokaryotic Cell Division: Binary Fission

19. QOD
During which stages of a cell cycle would a chromosome consist of two identical chromatids?
Compare cytokinesis in animal cells and plant cells.
Identify three similarities between bacterial chromosomes and eukaryotic chromosomes, considering both structure and behavior during cell division.

20. Control of the Cell Cycle
Series of checkpoints along the cell cycle that coordinates key events.
Like a washers timing device
Checkpoint: A critical control point in the cell cycle where stop and go–ahead signals can regulate stages of the cycle.
Three Check Points:
G1, G2, M
G 0 phase: A nondividing state in which a cell has left the cell cycle.

22. Enzymes control the signaling at each checkpoint
These regulatory molecules are proteins of two main types: Kinases and cyclins.
Kinases: give the go–ahead signals at the G1 and G2 checkpoints.
present at a constant concentration in the growing cell, but much of the time they are in an inactive form
cyclin–dependent kinase (Cdk) A protein kinase that is active only when attached to a particular cyclin.
Cyclin: To be active, kinase must be attached to a cyclin; a protein that gets its name from its cyclically fluctuating concentration in the cell.

23. Enzymes control the signaling at each checkpoint
MPF: Maturation–promoting factor (M–phase– promoting factor) a protein complex required for a cell to progress from late interphase to mitosis.
Consists of a cyclin and a kinase bound into 40 structure.
M checkpoint

24. The Lack of Cyclin at G1 is the go signal for the G1 checkpoint

25. Cancer
Mistakes in the control mechanism of cell cycle which result in uncontrolled cell division.