Cell Cycle
What are the 3 stages of the cell cycle?
1. Interphase
2. Mitosis/Meiosis
3. Cytokinesis
Cancer begins when ____________ disrupt the normal cell cycle, causing cells to divide in an uncontrolled way.
Mutations
Gregor Menel is ofter referred to as
The father of genetics
A doubled rod of condensed chromatin that contains DNA.
Chromosomes
During what phase of mitosis does chromatin condense into chromosomes?
Prophase
Tumor
What are the offspring from the parents generation called?
Filial
Different forms of a gene.
Allele
During what phase of mitosis does the chromosomes line up across the center of the cell?
Metaphase
Define cancer.
a disease in which cells grow and divide uncontrollably, damaging the parts of the body around them.
When an organism has two identical alleles for a trait.
Homozygeous
The study of inheritance.
Genetics
Define cell cycle
a cell grows, prepares for division, and divides into two new cells, which are called “daughter cells” and then the cycle starts all over again.
What are the three common ways to treat cancer?
Surgery, radiation, and drugs.
An organism’s genetic makeup, or allele combination.
Genotype
Traits that always show up in the organism when the allele is present.
Dominant Alleles
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
What are the three ways we can try to reduce the changes of developing cancer?
Don't smoke, eat healthy, protect your skin from bright sunlight.
We use _____________ to determine the probability of genetic crosses.
Punnet Square
When alleles are neither dominant nor recessive. As a result, both alleles are expressed in their offspring.
Codominance