Go Divide Yourself!
Famous Scientists
The Magnificent Helix
Nuclear Details
Steps and Stages
100
This is the terms used to describe the stage of mitosis where chromosomes condense from chromatin into visible chromosomes.
What is Prophase?
100
This is the scientist that named a cell after a monk's quarters.
What is (who is) Robert Hooke?
100
DNA is the abbreviation for this term.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
100
DNA is located in this organelle in an animal cell.
What is the nucleus?
100
Looking at an onion cell slide this stage of the cell cycle will be most common among all the cells.
What is interphase?
200
Chromosomes are lined up along the equatorial plate in this stage.
What is metaphase?
200
This woman described the endosymbiotic theory.
What is (Who is) Lynn Margulis?
200
The genetic material during interphase is loosely organized and called this term.
What is chromatin?
200
This structure keeps the DNA inside the nucleus, however Mrna can pass through.
What is a nuclear pore?
200
I am looking at this stage of mitosis if I see chromosomes migrating to the far sides of the cell away from the middle.
What is anaphase?
300
This is the organelle that helps to separate chromosome pairs.
What is a centrosome?
300
This gentleman termed pond water organisms, "animacules."
What is (Who is) Anton von Leeuwenhoek.
300
Term given to the analogous pairs of chromosomes during mitosis.
What is (or are) the sister chromatids?
300
DNA codes for a wide variety of these molecules.
What is (are) proteins?
300
I am looking at this stage of mitosis if a nuclear membranes is dissipating and chromosomes are clearly visible.
What is prophase?
400
This is the part of cell division where the organelles arrange themselves into two areas making sure new cells have everything needed to be viable.
What is cytokinesis?
400
This scientist looked at radiation and radioisotopes and later died of cancer probably as a result of her research.
What is (Who was) Madame Curie?
400
A place on a chromosome that codes for a specific protein is called a ____.
What is a gene?
400
This is the term for the short sections of DNA which are read one after the other.
What is a codon?
400
I am looking at this stage of the cell cycle if a nuclear membranes are forming inside two cells pinching off from one another.
What is cytokinesis?
500
This is the part of the cell cycle where a cell will spend most of its time.
What is interphase?
500
This man studied and published in the field of evolution and studied sparrows in the Galapagos Islands.
What is (Who was) Charles Darwin?
500
Versions of the same message (one from bio Dad and one from bio Mom) are called this.
What is an allele?
500
This is the organelle where ultimately the product of the message carried by RNA will be assembled.
What is a ribosome?
500
I am looking at this stage of mitosis if spindle fibers are equal length on each side of analogous pairs visible in the center of my field of view.
What is metaphase?
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