Cancer
Substances known to produce or promote cancer are
What are carcinogens
The four phases of mitosis are?
What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
What is growth and repair
Which level of organization is represented by a group of different tissues working together to perform a complex function?
What are organs
One difference between a cancer cell and a normal cell is that
What is cancer cells divide uncontrollably
After prophase has finished, what changes have been made in the cell?
During interphase, a cell grows, duplicates organelles, and
What is doubles the DNA
The smallest level of organization that can still be considered life is?
What are cells
What is true of malignant tumors?
What is they can cause tumors in other parts of the body
If a cell has 8 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will the daughter cells have?
What is 8.
The cell cycle is made up of what three parts?
What are interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis.
Programmed cell death is known as...
What is Apoptosis
Research has shown that uncontrolled cell growth and development can lead to which disease?
Cancer
Which organelle is critically for cell division?
What are centrioles.
If a cell does not go through the S phase of the cell cycle before mitosis, what might be wrong with the daughter cells?
What is not enough chromosomes.
What makes stem cells different than other cells in the body?
What is they are undifferentiated cells.
Checkpoints are...
What are stop and go signals that regulate the cycle.
Immediately after telophase, this occurs.
What is cytokinesis.
In an animal cell, what splits the cytoplasm into two cells?
What is cleavage furrow.
The center of the condensed chromosome.
What is centromere.