One long continuous thread of DNA that consist of numerous genes along with regulatory information.
What is a chromosome?
100
The programmed death of a cell
What is Apoptosis?
100
The asexual reproduction of a single celled organism by division into two roughly equal parts
What is Binary Fission
100
groups of cells that work together to preform a similar function.
What are tissues?
200
The division of the cell nucleus and its contents.
What is Mitosis
200
a group of proteins that associates with chromosomes
What is Histone?
200
The common name for a disease characterized by the uncontrolled cell division.
What is Cancer?
200
the creation of offspring from a a single parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
200
groups of tissues that work together to preform a specific or related function?
What is and organ?
300
The process that divides the cell cytoplasm.
What is Cytokinesis?
300
A complete set of identical chromosomes are 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 happens during the telephase?
300
A type of tumor that is relatively harmless.
What is benign?
300
It can be more efficient
Reproduce a identically genetic offspring
What is one advantage of asexual reproduction?
300
organs that carry out similar functions and are group into...
What is an Organ System?
400
Anaphase
What is the third step of Mitosis?
400
The structures that form at the ends of DNA that are made of repeating nucleotides that do not form genes.
What is a telomere?
400
When the cancer cells break away and spread throughout the body.
What is malignant?
400
The offspring will respond to the environment in the same way.
Population members lack traits that enable them to produce and respond to the changing environment.
What are some disadvantages of asexual reproduction?
400
process by which unspecialized cells develop their mature forms and functions.
What is cell differentiation?
500
Metaphase
What is the second step of Mitosis?
500
A region of condensed chromosome that looks pinched.
What is a centromere?
500
a broad group of proteins that stimulate cell divisions.
What is growth factor?
500
when a parent organism splits into pieces, each of which can grow into a new organism.
What is fragmentation?
500
unique type of body cell that has the ability to divide and renew themselves for long periods of time and remail undifferentiated in form, and develop into a variety of specialized cell types.