Unit+6+The+Cell+Cycle

=**__LEARNING OBJECTIVES__:**=

Understand the concept of a cell cycle, and how it plays an important role in different types of organisms.

 * Understand several differences between the eukaryotic cell cycle and the prokaryotic growth cycle.
 * Understand how the eukaryotic cell cycle is controlled, and why this is important.
 * Know and understand the different stages of the eukaryotic cell cycle, and what happens during each one.
 * Understand that DNA must be replicated prior to mitosis, and why this is so.
 * Follow the path of a cell’s DNA/chromosomes through the different stages of mitosis.
 * Understand that mitosis is the division of one cell to produce two, genetically identical daughter cells.
 * What is cancer and how does it relate to the eukaryotic cell cycle?

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