The Cell Cycle
Enzymes
DNA Replication
Stem Cells
Cancer Bio
100
This is the step of the cell cycle that separates the cytoplasm.
What is cytokinesis?
100
This enzyme is responsible for unzipping the DNA strand.
What is helicase?
100
The new strand of DNA is called this.
What is a daughter strand?
100
The best type of stem cell treatment, but also the most ethically debatable.
What is embryonic or ES cells?
100
Name on type of carcinogen.
What is UV light, smoking, chemicals, diets, viral infections, or other types of radiation?
200
This is the location where spindle fibers are made, it is the only organelle that is only active during cell replication.
What are centrioles?
200
Will the the substrate bind to form the enzyme-substrate complex?
What is yes, it will bind?
200
Okazaki fragments are only found on this strand, you must name ____' to ____'.
What is the lagging strand and 5' to 3'?
200
Name one disease or disorder that is being treated by stem cell therapies.
What is diabetes, Parkinson's, corneal clouding, leukemia, liver failure, or skin burns?
200
This is a common treatment of cancerous masses.
What is surgery, radiation, or chenmotherapy?
300
This is the second stage of Interphase where cells make copies of all their DNA.
What is S phase?
300
DNA Polymerase III
What is the enzyme that makes and proofreads the daughter DNA strands?
300
This area is where primers bind and DNA replication starts.
What is the origin of replication?
300
Adult stem cells are called this.
What are somatic stem cells?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
What is a cancerous gene called?
400
In this phase of mitosis, the chromosomes are lined up at the equator of the cell, held together by tension.
What is metaphase?
Middle = Metaphase
400
Ligase
What is the enzyme that glues together Okazaki fragments and new DNA strands?
400
In this process, new daughter DNA molecule receives one parent strand and one daughter strand.
What is semiconservative replication?
400
The process of a cell becoming a brain cell instead a skin cell.
What is differentiation?
400
Tumor growths that are contained and said to be non-cancerous.
What are benign tumors?
500
All of our cellular checkpoints are regulated by these specialized proteins.
What are cyclins?
500
This enzyme is responsible for relaxing the supercoiled DNA structure.
What is topoisomerase?
500
DNA has a unique structure where the strands are opposites of each other, this is called. . .
What is antiparallel?
500
Name a limitation of working with somatic stem cells.
What is they do not live long in culture and sometimes they are not easy to harvest (like those in the brain)?
500
This is programmed cell death when genes notice DNA or cell damage.
What is apoptosis?
600
In this phase of M phase, the nuclear envelope breaks down and chromosomes are condensed.
What is prophase?
600
Two things that will denature the enzyme.
What is pH and temperature?
600
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the way that DNA polymerase moves?
600
These types of stem cells are somatic skin cells that are cleared out to become whatever type of cell is chosen by the scientist.
What are induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells?
600
This enzyme is nonfunctional in a RAS protein oncogene, which always keeps this gene turned on.
What is GTPase?