Control of the Cell Cycle

What happens when a cell dies inside the body and how does the body know when to make new cells? The cell cycle is the series of events that take place as new cells grow and divide. In average this process takes about 24 hours for cells in mammals. This game is rather easy to complete if you are familiar with the different phases in the cell cycle. If you're not, pay extra attention to the image of the cell cycle in the introduction. As "Cell Division Supervisor" inside the cell nucleus, your job is to control cell division to make sure each stage of the cell cycle occurs in the correct order. You also have to ensure the cell has successfully replicated its genetic material at specific checkpoints in the cell cycle. If you make more than three mistakes during one cell division, the cell will be destroyed and you will have to start again.

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The text in the information doesn't render nicely.
The sound doesn't work until the very end of the game.

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About the game

The game is about the different phases in ordinary cell division, mitosis. Between each phase there are several "check points" to make sure that nothing happened to the genetic material on the way.
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The Nobel Prize

The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for discoveries concerning the control of the cell cycle.
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