Cell Cycle and Mitosis Goals

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Essential Question: How Do Cells Divide?

1. Content
a. The Cell Cycle
b. Mitotic division in animal and plant cells

2. Main goals
a. Understand the phases and events in the cell cycle
b. Understand the phases of Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, and Cytokinesis in Mitosis, and the events in each phase.

3. Assessment
a. Identify the stages and events in cell cycle
b. Sequence the stages and events in the mitotic cell division
c. Describe how the cell cycle events change in the growth of cancer cells