About the lecture

In the first mini-lecture, we discuss mitosis, as brought up in topics 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 of the Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Biology specification. We describe mitosis as part of the cell cycle, including the stages interphase, prophase, anaphase, telophase and cytokinesis, and the importance of mitosis in growth, repair and asexual reproduction. Cellular division by mitosis is then described as the production of two daughter cells, each with identical sets of chromosomes in the nucleus to the parent cell, and that this results in the formation of two genetically identical diploid body cells.

About the lecturer

Dr Matthew Ivory is a Lecturer at Cardiff University in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (2016-present). His key expertise is in ex vivo human skin organ culture and histology, human skin immune cell extraction and culture, flow cytometry and pharmaceutical formulation, and his research interests are in the delivery of vaccines and therapeutics into the skin. In addition to this, he is also a qualified pharmacist.