The resting stage of the cell cycle
What is interphase
What is The function of mitochondria?
What is produces energy for the cell
The part of the digestive system where most nutrient absorption takes place.
What is the small intestine
One difference between cancer cells and normal cells
What is
• large number of dividing cells
• large, variable shaped nuclei
• variation in cell size and shape
• disorganized arrangement of cells
Two Types of Stem Cells
What are embryonic and adult.
The group of diseases where cell division is out of control
What is cancer
A structure an animal cell has that a plant cell does not
What are the centrioles
The passageway for food lying between the mouth and stomach
What is the esophogus
Random changes in DNA that can be caused by a carcinogen
What is a mutation
It is composed of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System CNS
These phases are prophase, prometaphase, ______, anaphase, telophase, and Cytokinesis
metaphase
how do animal and plant cells look different?
plants cells have cell walls, are green and square like, when animal cells don't have cell wall, and round and pink.
The name of the vessels running from the lung to the heart
What is the pulmonary vein.
The two types of tumours
What is malignant & benign
The smallest part of the respiratory system.
What is an alveoli.
The phase where sister chromatids separate and go to opposite poles
What is ANAPHASE
The cell theory (3 statements)
What is
1. All living things are made of one or
more cells
2. the cell is the simplest unit that can
carry out life processes
3. all cells come from other cells
Another name for the windpipe in the Respiratory System.
What is the trachea
Three treatments for cancer
What is surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy
The name of this muscular contraction found in the esophagus.
What is peristalsis.
what is the 5th stage of mitosis called?
telophase
The trunk of a tree is damaged in a storm. What process will the cells of the tree naturally begin and for what purpose?
What is The cells will begin the process of mitosis in order to repair the damage to the tree
The reason heart attacks occur
What is blockage of the coronary artery (the artery that supplies blood to the heart)
The name for the process in which cancer cells move to different parts of the body
What is metastasis
The difference between sexual and asexual reproduction.
What is
• Asexual reproduction involves only one parent and
produces offspring that are exact genetic copies of the
parent.
• Sexual reproduction involves two cells from two
different parents in which half the DNA from each
parent is passed to the offspring