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To divide or not divide...
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100
The structures that are made of supercoilded DNA around proteins that become visible during cell division are called ______________________.
Chromosomes
100
If each normal human body cell has 46 total chromosomes. How many homologous chromosome pairs does each cell have?
23
100

This term refers to a cell that can only become some of a particular type of cell.

What is multipotent?

100

______________ is the collective name for the first three phases of the cell cycle (growth 1, synthesis, and growth2).

What is Interphase?

100

This many phases make up the process of mitosis.

What is Four?

200

The name of the ends of the chromosome.

What are telomeres?

200

When mitosis occurs each cell has ____ copies of all DNA.

What is 2?

200

This is the term for the arms of a chromosome.

What is a chromatid?

200
_______________ is the process of cell division in which the nucleus of a cell is divided into two nuclei.
Mitosis
200

During _______________ of mitosis, chromosomes are now at opposite poles. A nuclear envelope forms around the chromosomes.

What is telophase?

300
A ________________ is a segment of DNA that codes for a protein or RNA molecule.
gene
300

The human daughter cells that occur after cytokinesis have how many chromosomes?

What is 46?

300

This is the term for uncondensed or extended DNA.

What is chromatin?

300
________________ is the process during cell division in which the cytoplasm divides.
Cytokinesis
300

During _________________ of mitosis, chromosomes line up along the equator (middle) of the cell. Spindle fibers link the chromatids of each chromosome to opposite poles.

What is metaphase?

400

Two exact copies of DNA that make up each chromosome are attached at a point called a __________________.

What is a centromere?

400

A human cell has this many pairs of chromosomes.

What is 23?

400

Two matched ends of a chromosome pair are called ____________.

What are sister chromatids?

400
What occurs during the S phase of interphase?
DNA is copied
400

During _____________ of mitosis, chromosomes coil up and become visible. Also, the nuclear envelope dissolves and spindle fibers begin to form.

What is prophase?

500

Chromosomes that are matched up because they are similar in shape, size, and genetic content are called _______________ ___________________.

What are homologous pairs?

500

This many daughter cells are created from mitosis of a cell with 12 chromosomes.

What is 2?

500

The organelles produce spindle fibers needed during mitosis.

What are centrioles?

500
What is happens to a cell that loses control of the cell cycle and starts to divide uncontrollably?
The cell becomes cancerous.
500

During _______________ of mitosis, centromeres divide, the two chromatids (now called chromosomes) move toward opposite poles as the spindle fibers attached to them shorten.

What is anaphase?

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