It's not a Phase Mum
Condensation of chromosomes; spindle assembly.
What is PROPHASE?
Instruction for incorporating a specific amino acid.
What is a CODON?
Made of a five carbon sugar and a phosphate group.
What is a NUCLEOTIDE?
Division of the nucleus.
What is MITOSIS?
Alignment of chromosomes at equatorial plate.
What is METAPHASE?
Level of compaction where DNA + histones form "beads on a string".
What are NUCLEOSOMES?
Double ringed nucleotides; adenine and guanine.
What are PURINES?
Division of the cytoplasm
What is CYTOKINESIS?
Chromosomes decondense; nuclear envelope re-forms.
A fibre of woven histones.
What is CHROMATIN?
Single ringed nucleotides; cytosine and thymine.
What are PYRIMIDINES?
Microfilaments forming a ring
and pulling the equator of an animal cell
inwards.
What is CLEAVAGE?
Separation of chromatids; migration to poles.
Chromosome pairs of the same length that have genes at the same locus.
What are HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOMES?
One DNA strand going up and the other going down.
What is ANTIPARALLEL?
Fused vesicles in plant cells that accumulate at the metaphase plate.
What is the CELL PLATE?
Nuclear envelope breakdown; chromosome attachment to spindle.
What is PROMETAPHASE?
Repetitive DNA sequences and associated proteins that cap the ends of linear chromosomes.
What are TELOMERES?
DNA region that controls whether a gene is turned on or off.
What is a PROMOTER?
Ring around an animal cell that shrinks to pull the plasma membrane towards itself.
What is the CLEAVAGE FURROW?