Cell Division


Begin with a single cell and watch as mitosis and cell division occurs. The cells will go through the steps of interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and cytokinesis. The length of the cell cycle can be controlled, and data related to the number of cells present and their current phase can be recorded.

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Assessment Questions (5):

  1. Place the four images from the cell cycle in the correct chronological order.

    four magnified cells
  2. During which phase does the cell actually separate into two individual daughter cells?
  3. If your were to examine a sample of 1000 cells, in which of the phases listed below would you expect to find most of the cells?
  4. Upon examining a sample consisting of 100 cells, you find the following distribution of cell phases. If you know that the cell cycle for this type of cell takes two hours, how long, on average, does the cell spend in prophase?

    table of cell phase data
  5. In what part of the cell cycle does the DNA make a copy of itself?

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