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How can neurons divide without centrioles?
You talk about memory loss. The hippocampus is involved in the formation and storage of memories and indeed one of the few places in the brain where new neurons are formed. The formation of new ...
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How do stem cells produce 200 billion new blood cells every day? Does 1 stem cell division result in production of just 1 blood cell or many?
The hematopoietic stem cells are quite rare, and each progenitor cell produced by a stem cell gives rise to a large number of red blood cells (and other blood cell types).
I'm not sure if the precise ...
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Why are humans only so tall/large?
The question is a bit vague but I will take it to mean the following
Why does it (the body) stop in terms of height or physical mass when it can still keep on growing?
The answer is physics, ...
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How are germ cells not reduced in number?
In case of gametogenesis (let us talk about spermatogenesis) gametes are formed from meiotic division of Primary spermatocytes.
In Primates Primary spermatocytes are cells that that are formed from ...
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Names of different cyclins
Biological nomenclature can be impenetrable. Almost certainly, at some point in history, there were cyclins designated with these letters. Researchers would have discovered apparently novel cyclins ...
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Genetic information storage and the extent to which it controls appearance/structure
The common phrase I've heard is "DNA isn't a blueprint, it's a recipe". More specifically, the nucleotides in DNA correspond to which proteins get made (coding DNA) and when and where (regulatory DNA)....
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How are germ cells not reduced in number?
"How are germ cells not reduced in number?"
It does happen. Germ cells do eventually run out. It is called menopause in women. And age related infertility in men.
As for your question of where do ...
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Why doesn't cellular, replicative senescence (or the hayflick limit) constrain the normal development of an organism?
You pretty much have answered your own question. It is a math problem. Cells are burning up their telomeres during fetal development onward but the cells are multiplying exponentially in number.
But ...
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How far is stem cell research from being to generate a new organ?
Sperm can already be generated using stem cells http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/02/25/scientists-grow-working-sperm-from-stem-cells/#.V-UADBV94o8
Also, heart, liver and kidney cells as ...
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Are surface area or volume conserved during cell division?
Another PLOS One article gives evidence of change both in volume and in surface area, but it is across mitosis phases. It could still be considered constant during cytokinesis only.
It seems that ...
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Contact Inhibition of Cell Division: Signaling Pathway
How does the mitotic entry machinery roughly respond to cell volume?
This is a broad question but luckily there is one article that addresses this precise question in detail. However, it is very ...
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How do cells determine what size to grow to before dividing?
All eukaryotic cells have 'checkpoints' during their cell cycle (1)1. They will only commit to cell division or the next phase of mitosis until all requirements have been fulfilled. The cell needs to ...
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What organism has the longest Hayflick Limit?
The Hayflick limit is generally associated with telomere length. Human telomeres are a little on the long side as species go, but are not extraordinary. Many species of mice, and other rodents, have ...
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What are chiasmata?
We need to make a distinction between the genetic map of a chromosome, which is usually built up from meiotic recombination frequencies between linked genetic markers, the physical map of a chromosome,...
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How long does each of the stages in meiosis take?
If you take a look at the figure directly above the image you posted in the link you posted, you'll see a very different set of figures.
It turns out, time spent in different phases of the cell ...
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Can a viable embryo develop from the fusion of two egg cells?
Yes, it is possible to make a zygote from two ovules. Other more complex scenarios are possible as well. You might want to read this cbc article. If the two ovules came from the same organism, then ...
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Why do chromosomes uncoil back to chromatin after cell divisions?
The condensed form of DNA that exists during cell division is tightly wound and therefore unavailable to the enzymes and transcription factors that interact with and read DNA. So, if chromosomes are ...
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Why is a cell in anaphase (without a nuclear envelope) be considered as a eukaryotic cell?
It is still considered a Eukaryotic cell because the daughter cells and mother cell are both Eukaryotic; the chromosomes will condense and be contained in a Nucleus after Telophase and Cytokinesis. ...
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Could someone explain how chromosomes are counted here?
Like @mgkrebbs commented, the left poster shows a total of 8 chromosomes, but only 4 pairs of chromosomes. I would dare say that you are right and that the poster is wrong. The left has 8 chromosomes, ...
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Why does Meiosis produce 4 daughter cells instead of 2? Won't splitting the initial diploid cell into two haploid cells be easier?
here is what I think why cells evolved to do meiosis like as it is now and not like you mentioned.
First I will try to tell you briefly (not in detail) how crossovers are made and how they ensure the ...
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When do retinal cells stop differentiating?
why do eye conditions like retinoblastoma develop primarily in infants?
One explanation is that infants grow fast. In general, each cell division is a risk of breaking/losing chromosomes. Breaks need ...
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Can a viable embryo develop from the fusion of two egg cells?
You're describing chimerism (distinct genotypes in a single organism; in animals, this arises when two fertilized eggs merge). This article suggests that "microchimerism" can occur during pregnancy ...
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Name/term for mechanisms by wich the relative size/number of cells of some tissue/organ are preserved
You are referring to organ “scaling” and “allometry”.
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Name/term for mechanisms by wich the relative size/number of cells of some tissue/organ are preserved
'Eutely' is the term used for organisms with a fixed number of somatic cells. I'm not aware of any term for sub-organismic structures.
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DNA replication - 2 new strands or original (parent) and child?
Via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconservative_replication
Semiconservative replication describes the mechanism of DNA replication in all known cells. It derives its name from the fact that it ...
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Does a cell suspend or exit cell cycle at G0?
It is actually suspend and yes the words do differ. This is because the cells that enter the G0 stage is not actually exiting the cell cycle because when situation demands it will divide. It is ...
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How do adult differentiated somatic cells divide?
There is no known alternative mechanism of proper cell division apart from mitosis and meiosis in animals. I think this is an unfortunate phrasing where the author is trying to introduce the term "...
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When two amoeba cells form from one amoeba, does spindle fibers form?
Amoebas undergo binary fission, which is a much more simplistic process than mitosis. In binary fission, the duplicated chromosomes simply separate as the cells is pulled apart. There are no spindle ...
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Which is the correct term haploid daughter cells or haploid parent cells?
"Parent" and "daughter" terminology is indeed relative. Any parent cell has been a daughter at some point. However, in the case of the zygote there is no "parent" strictly speaking since it is the ...
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Why are stem cell therapies more preferred (theoretically) over current measures?
Stem cell therapy was never going to replace surgery, and it isn't supposed to. We just don't have the tools to move stuff around inside the patient without breaking the skin.
Stem cells therapies ...
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