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.
It is not true that Medicare beneficiaries who are near death are primary cause of large Medicare Payments. Medicare is the federal government program that provides health care coverage. This program is in part funded by Social Security and Medicare taxes you pay on your income, in part funded through premiums that people with Medicare pay, and in part funded through the federal budget.
When humans taste or smell, receptors unique to each nerve cell detect the chemical and send signals to the brain, where many cells process the message to understand what we are smelling or tasting. But a bacterium is just a single cell, and it must use many different receptors to sense and interpret everything around it.