The in-depth description of all the essential aspects of the cell cycle makes this book a unique resource. A quarter of Morgan's book, from chapters 5–8, describes the control of mitosis and ...

In mitosis, two cells called daughter cells are produced, each identical to the parent cell. When looking at cells with a microscope, the length of different stages of the cell cycle can be ...

We therefore suggest that mitosis can be re-staged to reflect more accurately the molecular pathways that underlie key transitions. Cell division is the terminal phase of the cell cycle ...

With only half the DNA, when the parent cell combines with another ... which provides a step-by-step, side-by-side comparison of meiosis and mitosis.