Differences in the Cell Cycle Events between Animal, Plant, and Bacterial Cells

Cell cycle events portray some differences between different living things. In all the three living things, their cells divide, a process referred to as mitosis. The mitosis stage differs and it encompasses four phases. During development, the cell cycle functions endlessly with newly created daughter cells directly embarking on their path to mitosis. Bacteria cells separate forming two cells after every thirty minutes under favorable conditions. However, the eukaryotic cells take quite longer compared to bacteria cells to develop and divide. Nevertheless, in both animals and plants, cell cycle is usually highly regulated to prevent imbalanced and excessive growth. Both animals and plants are known as eukaryotes meaning that their DNA exists inside their cells’ nuclei. Therefore, their cells as well as mitotic processes are similar in various ways (Eckardt, 2012).

During interphase, the cells in both animals and bacteria carry out their division general functions according to the type of their cells. Unlike in plants, a preprophase group of cytoskeletal proteins emerge at a future location of the cell plate. At prophase stage, duplicated chromosomes compress in a way that can be seen with the help of a microscope. On the other hand, the mitotic spindle is formed at one side of nucleus, whereas in plants, spindle is formed around the nucleus. During prometaphase in animals and bacteria, the nuclear membrane disappears, the chromosomes attach themselves to mictotubules and start to move. In plants, however, the preprophase group dissolves while at metaphase stage, the chromosomes get aligned at the core of the cell. At anaphase, there are fewer differences between animals and plants. The chromosomes shift apart towards the both par...

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...er with the plasma membrane all over the edges of the cell, thereby completing the division of both daughter cells. In the middle of both plasma membranes stretch out on the central lamella that bisects the daughter cells. Every daughter cell then leaves a primary wall just next to the central lamella. Additionally, each of the two daughter cells deposits another primary wall layer all over the whole protoplast. The new wall formed combines with the cell plate’s wall to form one complete wall. The original cell wall enlarges until it ruptures because of the growth and expansion of the two daughter cells (Starr et al, 2012).

References

Eckardt, A. (2012). A brief tour of the cell cycle. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC526009/

Starr, C., Taggart, R., Evers, C. & Starr, L. (2012). Cell Biology and Genetics. United States: Cengage Learning.