Lec 19 MIT 7.012 Introduction to Biology, Fall 2004
Good morning, class. Nice to be here with you again after a long hiatus. So, we're going to talk today about the cell cycle. That is to say the life of a cell, how a cell grows and divides. And, as it turns out, this is one of our first entrees into cell biology. That is to say we're move, beginning to move away from the molecules inside cells and beginning to look at a, at the next higher level of complexity which is how cells proliferate. It turns out this is a very critical issue in a number of different disease areas, including notably cancer which we'll start talking about next time. And this is also the transition point, the inflection point in the semester when we begin to apply some of the things we've learned earlier to learning about specific disease processes. So, you'll sense more and more introduction of discussions of human disease processes as the semester goes from here on to the end. And her...