The guillotine continued to be used long after the Revolution and remained France's standard method of judicial execution until the abolition of capital punishment in 1981. The last person guillotined in France was Hamida Djandoubi, on 10 September 1977.
A: Cell division has three purposes for an organism: reproduction, growth and maintenance. For single-celled organisms, this is their direct and only method of reproduction, and it serves no other purpose. For multicellular organisms, cell division is a step in reproduction and is necessary for growth and maintenance. Continue Reading
I. Cell Division . Life is based on the ability of cells to reproduce, or make copies of themselves. This is done by a process called cell division = one cell divides into two cells. For one-celled organisms, cell division = reproduction; each cell division not only produces a new cell, it also produces a new organism (bacteria, protists). For multicellular organisms (like us) cell division allows an organism to grow and develop from a single cell to trillions of cells, and also to repair and replace cells. Somatic Cells: (Ch 8 - today) body cells of an organism that do all the 'daily' functions of the organism