mitosis
What is a reason for cells to stay small?
Diffusion
what is meiosis?
a process of nuclear chromosome division creating daughter cells with the haploid number of chromosomes
what are the three stages of the cell cycle?
interphase, mitosis, cytokinesis
what is cancer?
a disorder in which the cells lose the ability to control growth
happens in what?
anaphase l of eneiosis
Why do cells reproduce?
Growth, repair, diffusion
what cells is meiosis used to create?
gamete cells
cells will divide into
two daughter cells
non-cancerous and doesn't spread
what is benign?
the failure of the?
homologous chromosomes to separate properly
How do cells reproduce?
dividing in half
meiosis only occurs in
The reproductive organs aka gonadds
why is the cell cycle important?
all organisms grow from a single cell
cancerous and spreads to other tissues
what is malignant?
the result is gametes will have how many chromosomes?
22 or 24
what is mitosis?
the division of the chromosomes
gametes must contain what number of chromosomes for the new individual to contain the correct information?
Haploid
a protein that regulates the cell cycle
what is cyclin?
what is a tumor?
a mass of cells
the zygotes that result from the gametes will have how many chromosomes?
45 or 47
what is the number of DNA strands in a somatic cell
46
meiosis has how many divisions and will create how many individual cells?
two separate divisions and four individual cells
process of programmed death
what is apoptosis?
what are three treatments of cancer?
surgery, radiation, chemotherapy
what are a few genetic conditions this causes?
down syndrome, turners syndrome, Edwards syndrome, patous syndrome, metafemales, Klinefelter's syndrome, Jacob's syndrome