The cell cycle features some tricky, easily confusable terminology. Don’t mix up words like quiescence and senescence, or CDK and cyclin, or centromere and centrosome.

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Knowledge Fundamentals

Prokaryotic growth curve and division
Eukaryotic cell cycle, stages and checkpoints
Mitosis
Cancer

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Prokaryotic growth and division are much less tested than eukaryotic.
This test loves cancer and questions that involve cell cycle problems with respect to cancer. Make sure you have a list of cancer’s defining characteristics and are careful when reading cancer graphs!

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