The regular pattern of growth, DNA duplication, and cell division that occurs in eukaryotic cells
What is the cell cycle?
100
The division of the cell nucleus and its contents
What is mitosis?
100
Prophase
What is the first stage of mitosis?
100
The common name for a class of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell division
What is cancer?
100
Programmed cell death
What is apoptosis?
200
Gap 1, Synthesis, Gap 2, and mitosis
What are the 4 main stages of the cell cycle?
200
Cytokinesis
What is what happens after mitosis?
200
Anaphase
What is the third stage of mitosis?
200
A disorganized clump of cancer cells
What is a tumor?
200
A broad group of proteins that stimulate cell divison
What are growth factors?
300
The second stage of the cell cycle, means "the combining of parts to make a whole"
What is synthesis?
300
The process that divides the cell cytoplasm
What is cytokinesis?
300
A complete set of identical chromosomes is positioned at each pole of the cell. The nuclear membranes start to form, the chromosomes begin to uncoil, and the spindle fibers fall apart
What is what happens during telophase?
300
A type of a tumor where the cancer ells can metastasize.
What is malignant?
300
The ends of DNA molecules form structures, this is the result
What is a telomere?
400
The third stage of the cell cycle where cells continue to carry out their normal functions, and additional growth occurs
What is Gap 2?
400
2 daughter cells
What is the result of cytokinesis?
400
The stage of mitosis where the cell copies its DNA and grows in preparation for division. The DNA is loosely organized during interphase
What is interphase?
400
A substance known to produce or promote the development of cancer
What is a carcinogen?
400
A group of proteins where at almost all times during the cell cycle, each of your chromosomes
What are histones?
500
The first stage of the cell cycle, the cell must pass a critical checkpoint before it can proceed to the synthesis stage
What is Gap 1?
500
The result of cytokinesis, which are 2 genetically identical cells
What are daughter cells?
500
This condenses at the start of mitosis
What is a chromosome?
500
When the cancer cells remain clustered together, they classify a tumor as this
What is a benign tumor?
500
One long continuous thread of DNA that consists of numerous genes along with regulatory information