Biology GCSE
Daughter cell formation
What Daughter cell formation means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Two separate cells are produced, each receiving a full set of chromosomes and roughly half the cytoplasm and organelles.
Topics that use Daughter cell formation
- Mitosis and the cell cycle (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Application of knowledge
- Asexual reproduction
- cell cycle
- Cell cycle stages
- Chromosome copies
- Cytokinesis
- Cytokinesis in animal and plant cells
- DNA replication
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