Cell Cycle
The phase in which a cell spends most of its time?
What is interphase?
This is the phase during which the sister chromatids separate.
What is during anaphase?
This phase is the growth phase of interphase in preparation for mitosis.
What is G2?
Chromosomes break apart into these "sisters".
What are chromatids?
The cytoplasm and its contents divide into two identical daughter cells during this process.
What is cytokinesis?
Unlike mitosis, which has four stages, meiosis has this many stages.
What are eight stages (PMAT 1, PMAT 2)?
Most of the cells in your body are made through this process.
What is mitosis?
This protein holds identical sister chromatids together during the first stages of mitosis.
What is a centromere?
The spindle fibers pull the chromosomes apart during this phase
What is anaphase?
This forms in plant cells during the final process of the cell cycle, dividing the two daughter cells.
What is a cell plate or cell wall?
This is the term for the cells made in meiosis.
What are gametes?
During the mitotic phase, this is the order of the phases.
What are Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase
During this phase, the copied DNA condenses into chromosomes.
WHat is during prophase?
This begins to disappear during prophase.
What is the nucleus?
THis energy molecule provides the energy needed for cytokinesis to take place.
What is ATP?
If a cell goes through meiosis and originally had 24 chromosomes, how many will each daughter cell have?
12
The stage that cells go into when they stop dividing.
What is the G0 stage?
The number of chromosomes in human somatic cells.
What is 46?
These are the two stages of the cell cycle besides interphase.
What are mitosis and cytokinesis?
Two new identical nuclei form during this phase of mitosis.
What is telophase?
If a cell has 15 chromosomes prior to mitosis, it will have this many sister chromatids.
What is 30?
This is the term used for cells that have "two sets" of DNA.
What is diploid?
This is the stage of the cell cycle when cells copy their DNA.
What is the S stage of interphase?
The term given to the process of copying DNA.
What is DNA replication?
This term is used for cells that self destruct due to DNA copying errors rather than undergoing cell division.
What is apoptosis?
The chromosomes of the cell do this during metaphase?
What is line up in the center of the cell
What is the first thing that happens when a new cell is produced?
It grows or gets larger
Only one female gamete actually forms an egg cell during meiosis. The other three gametes form these.
What are polar bodies.
This term is a general term for all forms of unregulated, runaway cell division.
What is cancer?
The number of chromosomes in a human gamete cell.
What is 23?
Nuclear membranes reappear during this phase, enclosing two sets of chromosomes.
What is telophase?
Cells made by this process are not genetically identical to each other, they are all different.
What is meiosis?
This is the term used for gametes that have only "one set" of DNA.
What is haploid?