Cell Cycle
Where a cell remains the longest to carry out its metabolic processes and performs its functions.
What is Interphase?
When the already replicated chromosomes condense.
What is prophase?
1. Heredity 2. UV light 3. Pesticides 4. smoking 5. Viruses
What are the 5 causes of cancer?
Cell cycle stage with nuclear division.
What is the mitotic phase?
When the spindle is fully formed and all of the chromosomes line up in the middle.
What is metaphase?
1. Surgery 2. Radiation 3. Chemotherapy
What are the ways to treat cancer?
Visible in Interphase but cannot see in mitosis.
What is the nucleus?
When sister chromatids separate and move toward the poles.
What is anaphase?
Chromosomes reach the poles, nuclear envelopes form around each set of daughter chromosomes.
What is telophase?
Environmental substances that causes cancer.
What are carcinogens?
Condensed threads of DNA formed from chromatin as a cell prepares to divide.
What is a chromosome?
The interphase period before the S phase.
What is G1 - primary growth?
Disease caused by a severe disruption of the cell cycle.
What is cancer?
Formation of 2 new daughter cells.
What is Cytokinesis?
Masses of cells that grow fast and spread.
What is a malignant tumor?