Beyond carrying out the tasks of routine metabolism, the cell must duplicate its components — most importantly, its genome — so that it can physically split into two complete daughter cells.

(Cytokinesis describes the division of the rest of the cell.) Almost all of the DNA duplication in your body is carried out through mitosis. Meiosis, as described above, is the process by which ...

In the early 1900s, several scientists including Theodor Boveri and Walter Sutton watched cells duplicate and discovered chromosomes. Finally, they had linked Mendel’s mathematics about traits ...

For instance, deletions that span a centromere result in an acentric chromosome that will most likely be lost during cell division. As with duplications, deletions can affect gene dosage and thus ...

Then, click "OK" when Excel reminds you that you're about to replace some data. To duplicate the contents of a cell, row, or column where data is already entered, select the relevant cell ...

In the course of growth and division, eukaryotic cells duplicate their genomes with remarkable fidelity. The precision of this process depends in large measure upon stringent regulatory mechanisms ...