Cell Cycle
Term for the two new cells produced after division
What are Daughter Cells?
Nuclear Division
What is Mitosis?
Unregulated Cell Division
What is Cancer?
Specialized cells that result from Meiosis
What are Gametes?
Safe house, where DNA is stored
What is the nucleus?
G1, S, G2 are stages of this phase of the cell cycle
What is Interphase?
Stage of nuclear division, characterized by chromosomes aligning at the equator of the cell
What is Metaphase?
Programmed Cell Death
What is Apoptosis?
The process of egg and sperm cells fusing
What is Fertilization?
Condensed form of DNA
What are Chromosomes?
Stage of Interphase, characterized by cells functioning normally but not preparing to divide
What is G0?
Stage of nuclear division, characterized by the dissolving of the nuclear membrane
What is Prophase?
Disease treatment method used to target cells that divide rapidly
What is Radiation Therapy?
Phase of Meiosis where crossing over occurs, allowing for genetic variation
What is Prophase I?
Substance that fills the cell, suspending all organelles and facilitating intercellular movement
What is Cytoplasm?
Critical control points within the cell cycle that ensure accurate and orderly progression through each stage
What are Check Points?
Stage of nuclear division, characterized by chromosomes arriving at the centrioles at each pole
What is Telophase?
A gene that controls normal progression through the cell cycle and triggers cell death
What are Tumor Suppressor Genes?
What are stem cells?
Protein structures that appear during nuclear division for the purpose of pulling chromosomes to the poles.
What are Spindle Fibers?
Phase of cell division where the cytoplasm of a cell splits into two
What is Cytokinesis?
Stage of nuclear division, characterized by chromosomes being pulled toward the poles by Spindle Fibers.
What is Anaphase?
A protooncogene that has accumulated a mutation
What is an Oncogene?
Product that results after sister chromosomes swap arms to create new genetic combinations in gamete cells.
What are Recombinant Chromosomes?
Organelle that creates the spindle fibers and serves as the anchoring point for the poles of the cell(s).
What are Centrioles?