Area in the middle of a chromosome that allows it to attach to the spindle fibers
What is the centromere?
100
In mitosis ____ cells are produced whereas in meiosis ____ cells are produced
What is 2 and 4
100
The phase when the chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell.
What is metaphase?
100
The disease that results from uncontrolled mitosis cell division.
What is cancer?
100
The term for an undifferentiated cell.
What is a stem cell?
200
The name for each of the two "arms" of a replicated chromosome.
What are sister chromatids?
200
Mitosis is the process used for________& _________ in multicellular organism while Meiosis is used for_____________.
What is growth & repair and reproduction?
200
The phase when the chromosomes begin to separate from each other.
What is anaphase?
200
Tumors that are not dangerous are called _________ and tumors that are invasive and dangerous are called __________.
What is benign and malignant?
200
The word that describes stem cells that can be absolutely ANY part of the organism.
What is totipotent?
300
The cell that contains half the number of chromosomes of a normal body cell
What is haploid?
300
Cells produced by mitosis are genetically _________ compared to the parent cell while cells in meiosis are genetically ________ compared to the parent cell.
What are identical and different?
300
The phase when the spindle fibers begin to form and the chromosomes begin to condense.
What is prophase?
300
The cell cycle is speed and frequency is controlled by chemical signals in the form of _____________.
What are proteins?
300
Embryonic stem cells that can be almost any (but not quite all) cells in the body.
What is pluripotent?
400
A cell that contains two complete sets of chromosomes
What is diploid cell?
400
Cells going through mitosis divide _________ while cells going through meiosis divide __________
What is once and twice
400
The phase when the nuclei reform and mitosis is technically over.
What is telophase?
400
The term used to describe when cancer cells that leave their original location and grow somewhere else.
What is metastasis?
400
Adult stem cells that can only be the same types of cells that they come from.
What is multipotent?
500
The part of meiosis where genetic information is exchanged between the homologous chromosomes
What is crossing over?
500
In regards to their chromosome content, cells produced from mitosis are __________ while cells produced by meiosis are ___________
What is diploid and haploid?
500
Te two phases that are part of the cell cycle, but NOT officially part of mitosis.
What are interphase and cytokinesis?
500
The process of programmed cell death.
What is apoptosis?
500
These are the possible medical uses (general) for embryonic stem cells?