Cytokinesis

CYTOKINESIS

Cytokinesis

  • Cytokinesis is the division of the cell's cytoplasm and organelles.
  • With the two nuclei already at opposite poles of the cell, the cell cytoplasm separates, and the cell pinches in the middle, ultimately leading to cleavage.
  • At the end of cytokinesis, there are genetically identical two daughter cells.
  • Leland H. (Lee) Hartwell, Tim Hunt and Sir Paul M. Nurse were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle.
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