There is no question that sexual reproduction provides evolutionary advantages to organisms that employ this…

Figure 7.1 Each of us, like these other large multicellular organisms, begins life as a…

The precise timing and formation of the mitotic spindle is critical to the success of…

Prokaryotes such as bacteria propagate by binary fission. For unicellular organisms, cell division is the…

Cancer is a collective name for many different diseases caused by a common mechanism: uncontrolled cell division.…

The length of the cell cycle is highly variable even within the cells of an…

Cytokinesis is the second part of the mitotic phase during which cell division is completed…

The cell cycle is an ordered series of events involving cell growth and cell division…

Figure 6.1 A sea urchin begins life as a single cell that (a) divides to…

The shared evolutionary history of all photosynthetic organisms is conspicuous, as the basic process has…