Mitosis
The most impactful trade-off of asexual reproduction
What is lack of genetic diversity?
Cells involved in sexual reproduction, and the end result of Meiosis
What are Gametes?
Stops cell signalling by binding to receptors
What is an inhibitor?
There are two primary subgroups of stages of the cell cycle: cell cycle and this
What is interphase?
The result of non-functioning checkpoints in the Cell Cycle
What are tumors or cancer?
What is the acronym used to memorize the phases of mitosis?
What is IPMATc?
Body cells unrelated to Meiotic reproduction
What are somatic cells?
The name of the combination between a signal, and a signal receptor.
What is the Ligand-Receptor complex?
Viruses do not undergo the Cell Cycle, preventing them from reaching this status
What is alive?
Term for possessing more than the normal amount of chromosomes, common in plants, but usually a sign of genetic disorder in humans.
What is polyploidy?
Factor that starts binary fission
What is nutrient availability?
During meiosis, the type of cell represented with n, in order of what the cell starts as and what the cell ends as.
What is diploid and haploid?
The types of cell receptors
What are Intracellular and Membrane receptors?
The correct order of phases in the Cell Cycle
What is M (Mitosis), G1 (Growth / Gap 1), S (DNA synthesis), G2 (Growth and Mitosis Prep / Gap 2)? (A cycle can start anywhere, as long as order is correct)
Term for when homologous chromosomes or sister chromatids fail to separate
What is a nondisjunction event?
What are spindle fibers?
Procedure that fertilizes eggs outside of the womb
What is In-Vitro Fertilization?
The four different forms of Cell Signalling
What are Autocrine, Paracrine, Juxtacrine, and Hormones?
Phase of the Cell Cycle which cells enter when they stop dividing
What is G0?
The three ways DNA can mutate during reproduction
What are insertion, deletion, and substitution?
What is the ori and ter?
The difference between centromeres, centresomes, and centrioles, in order
What is the region of a chromosome to which the microtubules attach, the region of the cell in which the microtubules originate, and the organelle in which microtubules originate?
Type of receptor that performs protein phosphorylation, changing the shape of ligands
What is a protein kinase receptor?
The trigger of CDKs, which cause movement between phases in the cell cycle (ex. G1 --> S --> G2)
What is genetic damage?
The most common human aneuploidy, causes most miscarriages
What is Trisomy 16?