Vocab
A cycle of growing and dividing that allows cells to reproduce.
what is Cell Cycle?
What is the stage during which the cell grows, carries out cellular functions, and replicates, or makes copies of its DNA in preparation for the next stage of the cycle?
What is interphase?
What is the stage of the cell cycle during which the cell's nucleus and nuclear material divide?
What is Mitosis?
What is the definition of cancer?
What is an uncontrollable division of cells?
What are 3 treatments to help cure cancer?
What are the structures that contain the genetic material that is passed from generation to generation of cells?
what are chromosomes?
What is the stage of the cell cycle during which the cell's nucleus and nuclear material divide?
What is Mitosis?
What is the phase called when the chromosomes line up in the middle?
What are the chemicals known to have cancerous effects?
What are Carcinogens?
What is the whole structure including the spindle fibers centrioles and aster fibers that moves and organizes the chromosomes before cell division?
What is the Spindle Apparatus?
What are the relaxed form of DNA in the cells nucleus called?
What is chromatin?
What is the method by which a cell's cytoplasm divides, creating a new cell?
What is Cytokenesis?
What is the first and longest phase of mitosis?
What is prophase?
What is a dangerous group of cells that are cancerous and also invade and destroy healthy tissue?
What is a Malignant Tumor?
What is considered the resting phase in the cell cycle? (still performing cell functions but not preparing to divide)
What is G0?(zero)
What is the structure at the center of a chromosome where the sister chromatids are attached?
What is centromere?
In stage S of interphase how many chromosomes get duplicated originally?
What is 46 Chromosomes?
What is the third stage of mitosis called where the chromatids are pulled apart?
What is Anaphase?
What is the spread of cancer cells beyond the original site?
What is Metastasis?
What is the enzyme to which cyclin binds during interphase and mitosis, triggering and controlling activities during the cell cycle?
What is Cyclin-Dependent Kinase?
What is a harmless group of cells? (ex. warts)
What is a Benign Tumor?
Since interphase is where the cells spend the longest time what are the 3 steps of interphase?
What are G1, S, and G2
What is Telophase?
What is it called when there is a formation of new blood vessels? (Cancer cells can spread to them causing the small localized tumor to grow and spread after this happens)
What is Angiogenesis?
What is Apoptosis and why does it happen?
What is programmed cell death? Apoptosis happens when a cell does not meet a checkpoint in the cell cycle/ meet the needs to move onto the next step in the cycle.