Biology  5/e   Raven/Johnson
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Each cell living at this moment is the product of division of some previous cell. This is as true of cells in people as of one celled organisms. Failure to divide into faithful copies of parent cells can be disastrous. This is the origin of cancer cells.

Highly structured processes have evolved that increases the probability that the products of cell division are, indeed, duplicates of parent cells. The processes are different for prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Plant cell division differs slightly from that of animals. The details of these processes make up this chapter. Mastery of the knowledge of these details is vital to understanding the chapters that follow.

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