Mississippi Science BIO.1E.2
The Standard
- BIO.1E
- Students will develop and use models to explain the role of the cell cycle during growth, development, and maintenance in multicellular organisms.
Identify and describe the changes that occur in a cell during the cell cycle. Explore problems that might occur if the cell does not progress through the cycle correctly (cancer).
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Cells as a System
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how a cell grows, copies its DNA, separates chromosomes, and splits. They explain how failed checks can let damaged cells keep dividing.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can put G1, S, G2, mitosis, and cytokinesis in order and describe what changes at each step. They can explain how a failed check might lead to uncontrolled cell division.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think DNA is copied during mitosis or that the cell splits before chromosomes separate. Some think every cell-cycle mistake causes cancer, though many damaged cells stop dividing.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Put G1, S, G2, mitosis, and cytokinesis in order. What happens in S, and what could happen if a damaged cell keeps dividing?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Use paper chromosomes and a drawn cell outline to model DNA copying, chromosome separation, and division into two cells.
Ask students to write: What might happen if a cell with damaged DNA passes a checkpoint and keeps dividing?
Give pairs shuffled G1, S, G2, mitosis, and cytokinesis cards to order, then have them add one event to each card.
Give students a drug card labeled “blocks mitosis” and ask why it could slow tumor growth but also affect hair follicles.
Keep exploring
Related Standards
- FB.3.7
Enrichment: Research and orally communicate the possible outcomes of a failure of mitosis (cancer) or meiosis (nondisjunction).
- GEN.2B.4
Investigate the role of mutations and the loss of cell cycle regulation in the development of cancers.
- GEN.1B.3
Microscopically observe and analyze the stages of the cell cycle (G1-S-G2-M) to describe the phenomenon and identify methods at different cell cycle checkpoints...
- BIO.1E
Students will develop and use models to explain the role of the cell cycle during growth, development, and maintenance in multicellular organisms.
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