Cell cycle

• What are the stages of the cell cycle?


  • Interphase
  • Nuclear division
  • Cytokinesis (division of cytoplasm)
• What is interphase?


  • phase of the cell cycle where the cell grows and prepares for division
• What is nuclear division?


  • Nucleus divides into 2 (mitosis) or 4 (meiosis)
• What is cytokinesis? 


  • Cytoplasm divides to from 2 new cells (mitosis) or 4 new cells (meiosis)
• What happens at the G1 stage?

  • Cell grows and new organelles and proteins made
• What happens at the S stage?


  • Cell replicates DNA
  • ready to divide by mitosis
• What happens at the G2 stage?


  • Cells keep on growing
  • proteins needed for cell division made