These are what we refer to 2 newly divided cells as:
What are "daughter cells"
100
Cytokinesis in animals via microtubules can be analogized to this occurring:
What is the pulling of drawstrings
100
Abnormal cells that remain at their original site & do not migrate are referred to as this:
What is benign
100
These are 2 types of regulatory proteins involved in cell-cycle control:
What are cyclins and CDK's (cyclin-dependent kinases)
100
In many cells, this is the most important "checkpoint" during molecular cell cycle regulation:
What is the G1 checkpoint
200
This cyclin-Cdk complex triggers a cell's passage past the G2 checkpoint into M phase:
What is MPF, maturation promoting factor
200
This refers to a short array of microtubules that extends from each chromosome:
What is an "aster"
200
This refers to, collectively, all the DNA in a cell:
What is that cell's "genome"
200
This percentage of women is estimated to develop some form of cancer at some point in their lives:
What is 33% (Eat that broccoli! De-stress! Do Yoga!)
200
In animals, in anticipation of cytokinesis, this forms at the waist of the cell:
What is a "cleavage furrow"
300
These sort of chromosomes can be witnessed during G1 of interphase:
What is unreplicated chromosomes
300
This percentage of men is estimated to develop some form of cancer at some point in their lives:
What is 50% (Pump in those antioxidants!)
300
This mnemonic device can help you remember the order of the stages of mitosis:
What is IPPMAT-C (Bad dog!)
300
This is what G2 stands for:
What is "second gap"
300
These sort of chromosomes can be witnessed during G2 of interphase:
What is replicated chromosomes
400
These are the proteins around which the DNA helix is wound, during chromosome arrangement:
What are histones
400
Plants form these as a means of cytokinesis:
What are cell plates
400
These 2 stages collectively make up M-phase:
What are mitosis and cytokinesis
400
Nonkinetichore microtubules serve this ancillary function during mitosis:
What is elongation of the cell
400
This refers to the phenomenon whereby most animal cells must be attached to a substratum in order to divide:
What is anchorage-dependence
500
Crowded cells stop dividing during this external regulatory signal:
What is density-dependent inhibition
500
Binary fission in prokaryotes begins at this site:
What is the origin of replication
500
This obscure piece of trivia tells us that in 1882, this German anatomist developed the dyes necessary to observe chromosomes during mitosis and cytokinesis:
Who is Walther Flemming
500
These structures fuse in plants to form the cell plate during cytokinesis in plantae:
What are vesicles
500
This refers to the entire apparatus of microtubules that controls chromosome movement during mitosis: