Why are eukaryotic chromosomes in pairs in a normal body cell?
Know the meaning of the following: histone, homologous chromosomes, centromere, chromatid, mitosis, cytokinesis, diploid, haploid, spindle apparatus, aster.
What are the three stages of interphase, and what happens in each stage?
What are the four major stages of mitosis, and what happens in each stage?
What is the difference between astral microtubules, polar microtubules, and kinetochore microtubules?
Be able to recognize animal cells and plant cells in each of the mitotic stages.
How do plant cells and animal cells differ in their method of cytokinesis?
How do plant cells and animal cells differ in their presence or absence of an aster?
What are growth factors?
What stages of the cell cycle are cardiac muscle, skeletal muscle and neuron cells "frozen" in?
Why do embryonic cells and cancer cells divide so rapidly?