Notes on Cell cycle, Mitosis and Meiosis

• Cell Cycle Phases and Checkpoints

• Regulation of Cell Cycle

• Mitosis

• Meiosis

• Major events in Mitosis

• Major events in Meiosis

• Difference between Mitosis and Meiosis

• Functions of Mitosis

• Crossing over

• Synaptonemal complex

• What happens if Non- disjunction occurs in Mitosis and Meiosis

• What does Bivalent or Tetrad

• Holliday model

• Similarities of Meiosis II and Mitosis

• Similarities between Mitosis and Meiosis

• Why is meiosis necessary in sexually reproducing organism?

• Structure of metaphase chromosome

• Chromosomes and chromatid count in humans during meiosis

• Chromosome and chromatid count in humans during mitosis

• How to count chromosomes and DNA molecules during mitosis?

• How to count chromosomes and DNA molecules during meiosis?