When cells divide, a molecular motor called the microtubule spindle helps segregate chromosomes into
the resulting daughter cells.
Proper control of the cell cycle is necessary to ensure that
the resulting daughter cells inherit identical copies of the DNA.
Not exact matches
Our
results indicate that this delay may serve to coordinate the production of CySC and GSC
daughter cells to ensure the correct association of one Gb with two somatic cyst
cells.
As a
result, the
daughter cell does not inherit the defective proteins that burden the mother
cell.
All human
cell lines growing in tissue culture dishes, and about 95 % of
cells in a human being, split evenly,
resulting in
daughter cells of equal size.
Mycobacteria can generate
daughter cells through asymmetric growth,
resulting in genetically identical, but physiologically diverse, populations.
An asymmetric
cell division in non-stem
cells can instead
result in two
daughter cells with very different fates, such as one large
cell that reinitiates
cell division prematurely and a much smaller
cell that either grows very slowly or dies.
After chromosome segregation, the
cell creates a cleavage site in between the two segregating genomes,
resulting in the generation of two distinct but genetically identical
daughter cells.
This division can be oriented,
daughter cells can be pushed inside or outside as
result of the mitotic spindle orientation, and asymmetric,
daughter cells can acquire distinct components giving them different contractile properties.