The number of phases
What is four?
Number of meiosis occurs
What is two?
Parent cell divides into two separate daughter cells
What is cytokinesis?
Cell obtains needed nutrients and conducts regular cell functions
What is interphase?
Packaged DNA molecule
What are chromosomes?
Structure made up of microtubules
What is the mitotic spindle?
The location of meiosis
What are germ cells?
Chromosomes line up at center
What is metaphase?
The multistep process of cell division
What is the mitotic phase?
Identical copies of chromatids formed by the DNA replication of a chromosome
What are sister chromatids?
Location of mitosis
What are body cells?
Phase before meiosis I
What is interphase?
Sister chromatids separate and pull apart
What is anaphase?
Phase in which DNA is replicated
What is S Phase?
Type of cell division that reduces the chromosome by half
What is meiosis?
Chromosomes are released
What is the nuclear envelope breaks down?
Chromosomes condense but also ______
What is pair up?
What is metaphase plate?
Phase in which cell synthesizes mRNA needed for mitosis
What is G1 Phase?
All of the cell's genetic information
What are genomes?
Two connected chromosomes
What are sister chromatids?
Aids in crossing over
What is synaptonemal complex?
______ forms to separate plant cells
What is a cell plate?
Phase in which there is rapid cell growth and protein synthesis
What is G2 Phase?
The region of a chromosome to which microtubules of spindles attach during cell division
What are centromeres?