Vocabulary
Cell Growth
Cell Division
Regulating the Cell Cycle
Mitosis
100
one of two tiny structures located in the cytoplasm of animal cells near the nuclear envelope
What is a centriole?
100
The cell replicates, or copies, all of its DNA, the cell also performs its 'everyday' function
What is interphase?
100
G1, S, and G2 are the substages of this.
What are the the substages of interphase.
100
disorder in which cell growth in uncontrollable
What is cancer?
100
part of eukaryotic cell division during which the cell nucleus divides
What is mitosis?
200
Stage when the cell divides into two new daughter cells
What is cytokinesis?
200
What is metaphase
200
Stopping growth or dividing
What happens once a cell reaches its size limitations?
200
Cancer cells spend less time in interphase
Which is why the reproduce so rapidly?
200
first and longest phase of mitosis, during which the chromosomes become visible and the centrioles separate and take up positions on the opposite sides of the nucleus
What is prophase?
300
Unspecialized cells
What are stem cells?
300
Prokaryotic cell division
What is binary fission?
300
This is divided during mitosis
What is the nucleus?
300
Alteration of the cell that causes cancer
What is mutation?
300
second phase of mitosis, during which the chromosomes line up across the center of the cell
What is metaphase?
400
area where the chromatids of a chromosome are attached
What is the centromere?
400
What is anaphase
400
These are built in to the cell cycle and and can stop the cell cycle.
What are checkpoints?
400
Programmed cell death
What is apoptosis?
400
the third phase of mitosis, during which the chromosome pairs separate and move toward opposite poles
What is anaphase?
500
Chromosomes coming together
What is synthesis?
500
Difficulty obtaining nutrients, eliminating waste, impairment of the cell membrane
What happens when the cell becomes too large?
500
Initiates various stages of the cell cycle
What is the role of cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs)
500
Proteins that regulate the cell cycle
What are cyclins?
500
fourth and final phase of mitosis, during which the chromosomes begin to disperse into a tangle of dense material, chromosomes begin to relax
What is telophase?