Genetic Terms
The basic physical and functional unit of heredity.
What is a gene
the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism.
What is a cell?
The phase in mitosis during which chromosomes line up on the spindle of the cell.
What is Metaphase?
A process that contributes to genetic variety.
What is meiosis?
This type of cell does not contain chloroplasts.
What is an animal cell?
What is a chromosome?
A group of cells that have similar structure and that function together as a unit
What is a tissue?
The phase in Mitosis where the chromosomes move to opposite poles of the cell.
What is Anaphase?
The fancy word for sperm and egg cells.
What are gametes?
This type of cell has a large central vacuole and a cell wall.
What is a plant cell?
(of a cell or nucleus) containing two complete sets of chromosomes, one from each parent.
What does diploid mean?
a collection of tissues that structurally form a functional unit specialized to perform a particular function.
What is an organ?
Uncontrolled Mitosis.
What is cancer?
An organism which has 46 chromosomes.
What is a human?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondrion?
(of a cell or nucleus) having a single set of unpaired chromosomes.
What does haploid mean?
A group of organs that work together to carry out a particular task.
What is a system?
Cells undergo Growth, DNA Replication and Cell Function
What happens during Interphase?
The point at which chromatids are attached.
What is the centromere?
A specialized cell which contains a large number of mitochondria.
What is a sperm cell?
each of two or more alternative forms of a gene found at the same place on a chromosome.
What is an allele?
A living thing that has an organized structure, can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, adapt, and maintain homeostasis .
What is an organism?
The part of the cell division process during which the cytoplasm of a single eukaryotic cell divides into two daughter cells.
What is cytokinesis?
These chromosomes are the same size and contain the same types of genes.
What are homologous chromosomes?
The sites in a cell in which protein synthesis takes place
What are ribosomes?