CBSE Class 11 Biology: Cell Cycle
CBSE Class 11 Biology: Cell Cycle
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CBSECLASS 11 BIOLOGY
G1 Phase: Cell metabolically active and grows continuously but does not replicate DNA
S Phase: DNA synthesis occurs, DNA content increases from 2C to 4C, but the number of
chromosomes remains same i.e., 2n.
G2 Phase: Proteins are synthesized in preparation for mitosis while cell b growth
continues.
Quiescent stage (G0): In adult animals cells that do not divide and exit G1 phase to enter
an inactive stage called G0. Cells at this stage remain metabolically active but do not
proliferate. e.g., Heart cells.
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Mitosis Meiosis
Takes place in the somatic cells. Takes place in reproductive cells.
It is a single division which produces two cells. It is a double division which produces
four cells.
Haploid and diploid both kind of cells may Only diploid cells undergo in meiosis
undergo mitosis. cell division.
Crossing over absent. Crossing over takes place.
Pairing of chromosome does not occur. Pairing of homologous chromosome
occurs.
Stages of Mitosis
Since the number of chromosomes in the parent and progeny cells is the same, it is called
as equational division.
Metaphase:
Anaphase:
Telophase:
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Cytokinesis
Is the division of protoplast of a cell into two daughter cells after karyokinesis (nuclear
division).
Plant cytokinesis: Formation of new cell wall begins with the formation of a simple
precursor cell plate which represents the middle lamella between the walls of two
adjacent cells.
Significance of Mitosis:
• Growth-addition of cells.
• Maintenance of surface/ volume ratio. Maintain Nucleo –cytoplasmic ratio.
• Maintenance of chromosomes number.
• Regeneration.
• Reproduction in unicellular organisms, lower plants and some insects.
• Repair and wound healing.
• Vegetative reproduction in plants takes place by mitosis.
Meiosis
• Specialized kind of cell division that reduces the chromosomes number by half.
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Meiosis I
Prophase I: Subdivided into 5 phases.
Leptotene:
Zygotene:
Metaphase I
Bivalent chromosomes align on the equatorial plate.
Microtubules from opposite poles of the spindle attach to the pair of homologous
chromosomes.
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Anaphase I
Homologous chromosomes, separate while chromatids remain associated at their
centromeres.
Telophase I:
Interkinesis
Stage between two meiotic divisions, (meiosis I and meiosis II) generally short lived.
Prophase II
Metapahse II
Anaphase II
Simultaneous splitting of the centromere of each chromosome, allowing them to move
towards opposite poles of the cell.
Telophase II
Significance of Meiosis:
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Important Questions
➢ Multiple Choice Questions:
Question 1. Life starts from a single cell in plants and animals called
(a) Cell
(b) Zygote
(c) Tissue
(d) Growth
Question 2. A typical eukaryotic cell cycle is illustrated by human cells in culture, which
divide approximately every:
(a) 12 hours
(b) 10 hours
(c) 24 hours
(d) 6 hours
Question 3. Yeast cell can progress through all the four stages of the cell cycle in only about:
(a) 60 minutes
(b) 90 minutes
(c) 30 minutes
(d) 45 minutes.
Question 4. The interphase is divided into.
(a) G1 phase (Gap1)
(b) S phase (Synthesis)
(c) G2 phase (Gap2)
(d) ail of these stages.
Question 5. The S phase marks the period during which replication of DNA takes place. It is
during this time that the content of DNA doubles, from
(a) 2C to 4C
(b) 4C to 2C
(c) (1n or 2n)
(d) (2n or 1n)
Question 6. The centrioles, in animal cells, initiate their replication in the cytoplasm during.
(a) G1 phase
(b) G2 phase
(c) S phase
(d) None of these phases.
Question 7. In plants apical cells and the cambium tissue continue to divide all their life,
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(b) Anaphase I
(c) Anaphase II
(d) Metaphase II
Question 14. In the meiotic cell division four daughter ceils are produced by two successive
division in which
(a) First division is reductional and second is equationai.
(b) First division is equationai, second is reductional.
(c) Both division are equationai.
(d) Both division are reductional.
Question 15. Meosis is
(a) Reductional division
(b) Equationai division
(c) Multiplicational division
(d) Disjunctional division.
➢ Fill In the Blanks:
1. Meiosis ends with telophase II, in which the …………… are once again enclosed by a
nuclear envelope, cytokinesis follows, resulting in the formation of tetrad of cells i.e.,
four haploid ……………
2. Anaphase begins with the simultaneous splitting of the ………….. which hold the sister
chromatids together, allowing them to move toward …………….
3. Metaphase II the chromosomes align on the equator with micro¬tubules from opposite
poles of the spindle get attached to the …………. of sister chromatids.
4. Prophase II meiosis II initiates immediately after ………….. usually before the …………. have
fully elongated.
5. The stage between the two meiotic divisions is called ………….. and is generally short
lived.
6. Diplotene X-shaped structures are called ……………
➢ True or False:
1. All organisms, even the largest, start their life from a single cell.
2. Growth and reproduction are characteristic of cells, indeed of all living organisms.
3. Cell division is a very important process in all organisms.
4. The requence of events by which a cell duplicates its genome, synthesies the other
constituent of the cell and eventually divides into two daughter cells is termed cell cycle.
5. Yeast for example, can progress through the cell cycle in only about 24 hours.
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(a) If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of
Assertion.
(b) If both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of
Assertion.
(c) If Assertion is true but Reason is false.
(d) If both Assertion and Reason are false.
Assertion: Interphase is resting stage.
Reason: The interphase cell is metabolically inactive.
2. In these questions, a statement of assertion followed by a statement of reason is given.
Choose the correct answer out of the following choices.
(a) If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of
Assertion.
(b) If both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of
Assertion.
(c) If Assertion is true but Reason is false.
(d) If both Assertion and Reason are false.
Assertion: Histones are basic proteins of major importance in packaging of eukaryotic
DNA. DNA and histones comprise chromatin, forming the bulk of eukaryotic
chromosome.
Reason: Histones are 5 major types H1, H2A, H2B, H3 and H4.
✓ Answer Key-
➢ Multiple Choice Answers:
1. (b) zygote
2. (c) 24 hours
3. (b) 90 minutes.
4. (d) All of these stages.
5. (a) 2C to 4C.
6. (b) G2 phase.
7. (a) Meristemic tissue.
8. (e) All of these phases.
9. (a) Kinetochores.
10. (a) Cytokinesis
11. (a) Syncytium.
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i. Interphase and
ii. M-phase or mitotic phase
9. Answer: G. phase.
10.Answer: Double the amount of DNA present in the original diploid cell.
➢ Short Answer:
1. Answer: The cell cycle is the sequence of events that occur between the formation of a
cell and its division into daughter cells.
2. Answer: Homologous chromosomes are pairs of chromosomes that have similar
characteristics. They show pairing during meiosis. One chromosome in each pair is
inherited from the father and the other one from the mother.
3. Answer: Mitosis is an equational division because the daughter cells have the same
number of chromosomes and an equal amount of cytoplasm.
4. Answer: Meiosis is necessary for sexually reproducing organisms because
i. It maintains the number of chromosomes constant in generation as meiosis is
reductional division.
ii. It causes variations among the progeny because crossing over takes place during
meiosis. This variation is important for evolution.
5. Answer: Mitosis is important because
1. It maintains genetic stability through generations.
2. It helps in the growth of multicellular organisms.
3. Many plants and animals multiply by mitosis i.e., asexual repro-duction to regenerate
the whole organism.
4. It helps to regenerate lost parts of an animal’s body.
5. It helps in the regeneration of new cells in place of dead and worn-out cells.
6. Answer: Each diploid nucleus has pairs of similar chromosomes called homologous
chromosomes. The two homologous chromosomes each derived from one parent during
sexual reproduction come together and form pairs during the zygonema of meiosis I.
Individuals of a pair are similar in length and in the position of their centromere.
7. Answer: Significance of meiosis:
i. Sexual reproduction: Maintains a number of chromosomes constant. Characteristic of
a species from generation to generation.
ii. Genetic variation: Through crossing over, it produces variations of genetic characters
of the progeny essential for evolution.
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1. Chromosomes become short and thick and sister chromatids are held at the
centromere.
2. Nucleus and nuclear envelope disappear.
3. In animal cells, centrioles move to opposite poles.
4. Chromosomes begin to move towards the equatorial plane.
Following changes take place in metaphase:
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3. Answer: Cytokinesis in plant and animal cells: The separation of daughter nuclei and
cytokinesis or cell cleavage maybe two different processes. The first visible changes
consist of an appearance of dense material around the microtubules at the equator of
the spindle at either mid or late phase then although spindle the fibre tends to
disorganize and disappear during telophase, they usually persist and may even increase
in number at the equator, frequently intermingled with a row of vesicles and the dense
material.
The entire structure is called the midbody. Simultaneously there is a depression on the
cell surface a kind of constriction that deepens gradually until reaching the midbody with
the completion of the furrowing, the separation of cells is concluded.
The phragmoplast begins to form in the mid anaphase of plant cells. Under the electron
microscope, it is possible to observe that the vesicles are of dense material applied
together to their surface. The vesicles are derived from Golgi complexes which are found
in the regions adjacent to phrag¬moplast which migrate to the equatorial region to be
clustered around the microtubules.
Although phragmoplast is initially found as a ring on the periphery of the cell, with time
it grows centripetally by the addition of microtubules and partition until it extends
across the entire equatorial plane. The vesicles increase in size and just until the two
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