Eukaryotic Cells (Part-III)

Introduction: The eukaryotic cell undergoes précised cell cycle and division to produce two daughter cells. Cell-cycle is the series of tightly regulated events leading to the division and duplication. It is a vital process used to single celled fertilized egg is developed into full organism. Cell division is the crucial event underlying the regeneration and repair in tissue, liver and heart. In prokaryotic cells, parent cell is divided simply by division into two halves through the process of binary fission. In eukaryotic cells, cell cycle has three phases; Interphase (synthesis of genomic DNA and cytoplasm), mitotic phase (division of DNA into two halves) and cytokinesis (division of cell). The over-view of these phases are given in Figure 24.1.

Figure 24.1: An Over-view of stages in eukaryotic cell cycle.