Organs or skeletal elements of animals and organisms
It gets smaller because that's what Lynx eat. If their food population goes down, they can't eat. So the Lynx might die.
If mitosis occurred without cytokinesis, the cell would contain two nuclei and twice the DNA. If cytokinesis occurred without mitosis , one of the new cells would lack DNA and a nucleus altogether. The cell cycle is regulated by signals both inside and outside of the cell.