cell cycle

American  

noun

1. the cycle of growth and asexual reproduction of a cell, consisting of interphase followed in actively dividing cells by prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.

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cell cycle British  

noun

1. the growth cycle of eukaryotic cells. It is divided into five stages, known as G 0 , in which the cell is quiescent, G 1 and G 2 , in which it increases in size, S, in which it duplicates its DNA, and M, in which it undergoes mitosis and divides

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Etymology

Origin of cell cycle

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Cancer cells experience reduced respiration, DNA damage increases, and the cell cycle stops.

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They redesigned the yeast cell cycle so that cell division depended on the behavior of the protein being evolved.

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The scientists connected the protein's output signal to a regulator that controls the cell cycle.

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Each yeast cell cycle lasts about 90 minutes, creating a rapid pass or fail test of whether the protein switched at the correct moment.

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This allowed them to assess changes in cytoplasmic stiffness across different stages of the cell cycle.

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