Phases
Mitosis, Meiosis, or Fission?
Vocabulary
Reproduction
Cancer
100
Chromosomes line up in the center of the cell.
What is metaphase?
100
The reproduction of somatic (body) cells.
What is mitosis?
100
A term for any living thing.
What is organism?
100
The male gamete.
What is a sperm cell?
100
Killing cancerous cells with chemicals.
What is chemotherapy?
200
Chromosomes move toward opposite poles of the cell.
What is anaphase?
200
The production of gametes.
What is meiosis?
200
The smallest part of living matter.
What is a cell?
200
The female gamete.
What is an egg cell?
200
The growth of new blood vessels.
What is angiogenesis?
300
Chromosomes reach the poles and begin to decondense; nuclear membrane reforms.
What is telophase?
300
The reproduction of single-celled organisms.
What is binary fission?
300
An organism's inherited traits.
What are genes?
300
A fertilized egg.
What is a zygote?
300
The spread of cancer throughout the body.
What is metastasis?
400
Cytoplasm divides in half.
What is cytokinesis?
400
Each cell inherits all of the parent cell's chromosomes.
What is mitosis? (fission also accepted)
400
A group of two chromosomes.
What is a tetrad?
400
When a male gamete fuses with a female gamete.
What is fertilization?
400
A tumor that is cancerous.
What is malignant?
500
Chromosomes condense and become visible.
What is prophase?
500
Each cell inherits half of the parent cell's chromosomes.
What is meiosis?
500
The process during which a chromosome pairs with its twin.
What is synapsis?
500
The term for reproductive cells.
What are gametes?
500
A tumor that is not cancerous.
What is benign?
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