Relation between number of points on elliptic curve and it being cyclic

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This is mainly a question about requirements to determine if an elliptic curve is cyclic. But what I truly don't understand is how do I use knowledge of how many points modulo n the curve has to determine if it is or is not cyclic? I got completly lost when it comes to group theory and don't understand how the number of points affect it.