4.1.2.2 mitosis and the cell cycle

• What is the cell cycle?

  A series of stages where cells divide
• what is the first stage of the cell cycle?

  when the cell grows bigger and increases in mass, the DNA is replicated and there is an increase in the number of sub cellular structures
• what is stage two of the cell cycle?

  mitosis - where one set of chromosomes is pulled to each end of a dividing cell and the nucleus divides
• what is stage three of the cell cycle?

  the cytoplasm and the cell membrane also divide to form two identical daughter cells
• what are the reasons cells divide?

  for growth, repair and replacement