Vocabulary Part 1
Smallest living unit in the human body
What is a cell?
How many new cells does your body make in an average minute?
What is 300 million?
What phase is BEFORE mitosis in the cell cycle?
True of False: Cancer can ONLY happen if you have a history of cancer in your family.
What is FALSE?
(What you change? What you measure? OR what you keep the same?)
What is what you change?
What is condensed genetic material called?
What is a chromosome?
The parent cell divides into two what?
What are daughter cells?
What is the first phase of mitosis?
What is prophase?
Finish the statement:
Cancer is ________________ cell division.
What is uncontrolled?
*************** DOUBLE JEOPARDY ************
What does the root "BIO" mean?
What is "LIFE"?
What are specific characteristics of an organism called?
What are traits?
*************** DOUBLE JEOPARDY ************
How are the parent cells and daughter cells related?
What is they are identical?
What phase of mitosis is the last phase?
What is Telophase?
Name three of the cancer types we have been studying this unit
Breast, Prostate, Lung, Stomach, Pancreas, Bladder, Skin, Leukemia (Blood), Kidney
What are the 8 planets in the solar system?
What are
Mars, Venus, Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Fill in the blank:
Genes --> Genome --> ____?____ --> Nucleus
What are chromosomes?
Do lifestyle choices and environmental conditions temporarily change gene expression or permanently?
What is Temporary?
Permanent is due to mutations!
What phase of the cell cycle do cells become FULLY seperate?
What is cytokinesis?
We all have the breast cancer gene. Why do we not all have breast cancer?
What is "genes can be turned on or off for certain individuals?"
What does PEMDAS stand for?
What is:
Parentheses, Exponent, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction?
What is it called when genes can either be turned "on" or "off"?
What is gene expression?
Where is the DNA stored inside of the cell?
What is in the nucleus?
Which phase of the cell cycle is the longest phase?
What is Interphase?
How does chemotherapy impact healthy cells and cancer cells?
What is it destroys both of them?
Which cell organelle is the POWERHOUSE OF THE CELLLLLL?!?!?!
What is the Mitochondria?