Vocab
Stages of Mitosis
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Cancer
Multicellular Life/Asexual Reproduction
100
A long continuous thread of DNA that consists of numerous genes along with regulatory information.
What are Chromosomes?
100
The stage in which cells copy themselves.
What is Interphase?
100
A common name for a class of diseases characterized by the abnormal growth of cells
What is cancer?
100
The creation of offspring from a single parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
200
Programmed cell death
What is Apoptosis?
200
The stage in which chromatids seperate.
What is anaphase?
200
Cells taken from embryos.
What are embryonic stem cells?
200
Cancer causing substances.
What are carcinogens?
200
The main type of asexual reproduction.
What is binary fission?
300
Groups of proteins that stimulate cell division.
What are growth factors?
300
The stage in which a complete set of identical chromosomes are positioned at each pole.
What is Telophase?
300
The ends of DNA molecules form these.
What are telomeres?
300
A tumor in which cells stay together.
What is a benign tumor?
300
This is a group of tissues working together to perform a specific function.
What are organs?
400
When cells break away from the tumor.
What is metastatizing?
400
The stage in which chromatin condenses into tightly coiled chromosomes.
What is Prophase?
400
The process that divides the cytoplasm.
What is Cytokinesis?
400
A tumor in which cells break away.
What is a malignant tumor?
400
The process by which unspecialized cells develop into mature forms.
What is cell differentiation?
500
A group of proteins each chromosome is associated with.
What are Histones?
500
The stage in which spindle fibers attach to a protein structure on the centromere.
What is metaphase?
500
The stage in the cell cycle in which nuclear DNA is copied.
What is Synthesis?
500
A type of mutation that accelerates the cell cycle.
What are oncogenes?
500
Cells that are unique in that they can develop into different types of cells.
What are Stem cells?
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