Explain How Mitosis Differs From Binary Fission

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Chapter 5 Section 3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle Main Ideas: Internal and external factors regulate cell division Cell division is uncontrollable in cancer Questions: 1. Describe what a growth factor is and how it influences the cell cycle. A growth factor is a broad group of proteins that stimulate cell division, this influences the cell cycle because it is what ‘stimulates the cell division’, which is a main factor in the cell cycle. 2. Explain how cancer cells differ from healthy cells. Healthy cells are more controllable and good for your body to continue producing, whereas cancer cells are uncontrollable and hard to manage, this is why things go wrong in your body and you cannot fix it easily. 3. How do benign and malignant tumors differ? The difference between these…show more content…
Explain how mitosis differs from binary fission. They differ because binary fission is asexual reproduction of a single celled organism by division of two roughly equal parts, whereas mitosis is not asexual, and needs the genes of two factors to reproduce. 2. Briefly explain why cutting a flatworm into pieces would not kill it. It is an asexual reproducer, meaning no matter how small the piece of it is left, it will be able to reproduce and keep on growing, this way it will not die out. 3. How does an organism benefit by being able to reproduce both sexually and asexually? The organism is able to have either of its offspring look like it, and the DNA of it would be more like itself. 4. Yeasts are growing in two dishes. You treat one with a chemical that blocks DNA replication but forget to label it. How can you identify the treated dish? One dish will have more visible DNA then the other one, which will show which one was used by the chemical and which dish was not

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