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Cell Cycle
Cell Cycle
Cell Cycle
Karyokinesis Cytokinesis
Mitosis Meiosis
• Growth: Mitosis helps in • It is the production of
the growth and haploid sex cells such as
development of a child eggs and sperm cells.
into an adult. • It reduces the number of
chromosomes in the
• Reproduction: Single-
parent cell by half and
celled eukaryotic produces four gamete
organisms such as cells. This process is required to
amoeba reproduce by produce egg and sperm cells for sexual
reproduction.
mitosis.
2 Binary Fission in Prokaryotes
What is Binary
Fission?
● It is the asexual
reproduction by a
separation of the body
into two new bodies.
Process of Binary
Fission
• Binary fission is the way that prokaryotic cells
and certain protozoans reproduce.
• Similar to other modes of asexual
reproduction, such as budding and formation
of baeocytes(the small reproductive cell), the
result is an offspring that has the same
genome as the parent.
Prokaryotic Binary Fission
• The prokaryotic cell contains DNA that is tightly
coiled prior to cellular splitting. The process
starts by creating a replicate of the genetic
material.
• The chromosomes segregate to separate poles
of the cell — a process called karyokinesis.
• The cytoplasm is subsequently cleaved into two
by a new cell membrane forming cytokinesis.
• The cell division process of prokaryotes, called
binary fission, is a less complicated and much
quicker process than cell division in
eukaryotes.
How is binary fission in
prokaryotes similar to mitosis?