Mitosis & Meiosis
Phase of mitosis when the chromosomes line up in the middle of the dividing cell
What is metaphase?
This happens when an egg and sperm cell are combined
What is fertilization?
Number of parent cells in asexual reproduction
What is 1?
Number of nitrogen bases
What is 4?
Number of nucleotides in a codon
What is 3?
Number of cells produced by meiosis
What is 4?
Chromosomes do this to increase genetic variation
What is crossing over?
When a new organism grows on the body of its parent and breaks off when it reaches adulthood
What is budding?
The molecules that make up the structure of DNA
What are nucleotides?
When DNA is translated into mRNA, this is what thymine becomes
What is uracil?
Cell division done by body cells
What is mitosis?
Another name for selective breeding
What is artificial selection?
Mitosis in unicellular organisms
What is binary fission?
Another name for genetic code
What is genome?
The START codon
What is AUG?
Number of chromosomes in a haploid cell
What is 23?
Cell that forms as a result of fertilization
What is a zygote?
An advantage of asexual reproduction
What is not using time and energy to find a mate?
The four nitrogen bases
What is adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine?
The amino acid assembled by the codon AUG
What is methionine?
Structures that form the mitotic spindle
What are centrioles?
Advantage of genetic diversity in sexual reproduction
What is adapting to new environments and therefore less likely to develop diseases?
Disadvantage of having the same DNA as the parent in asexual organisms
What is developing the same diseases as the parent?
What proteins in DNA control
What is the expression of traits?
Name at least one of the three STOP codons
What is UAA, UAG, or UGA?