Chapter 11

Compare and contrast the ways in which prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells divide.

Describe three situations in which mitotic cell division occurs.

Name the five steps of mitosis, and draw the changes in the structure and position of the chromosomes at each step.

Name two ways in which meiotic cell division creates genetic diversity, and explain how each occurs.

Explain how cytokineses differs between animal and plant cells.

Describe the roles of cyclins and cyctin-dependent kinases in the cell cycle.

Give three examples of checkpoints that the cell monitors before proceeding through the cell cycle.

Describe the differences among an oncogene, a proto-oncogene. and a tumor suppressors gene.