Mitosis
Mitosis produces...
Genetically identical diploid cells
How many parent cells are there in Meiosis?
One
A term for a tumor that is cancerous and can spread
What is malignant?
What does GMO stand for?
Genetically modified organisms
One of biology's most fundamental concepts
What is cell theory?
True or False
Mitosis involves the duplication and distribution of chromosomes to offspring cells
True
True or False
Meiosis undergoes one division
False; two
The first stage of cancer..
Mutation
A nucleic acid containing the genetic instructions for development and functioning in living organisms; made genetic engineering possible
What is DNA?
Units of heredity from parents
What are genes?
How many phases make up mitosis?
Four
Meiosis is used to produce ___ in the human body
What are gametes?
A term for a tumor that is not deemed cancerous
What is benign?
How are GMOs created?
By giving specific DNA to an organism
A process when homologous chromosomes line up during meiosis, the maternal and paternal chromosomes swap pieces
What is crossing over?
List the phases of mitosis in order...
Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase
The process in meiosis that ensures more genetic variation
What is crossing over?
A form of treatment that used medications aimed to destroy actively growing cells
What is chemotherapy?
What do GMOs aim to increase?
The productivity of our food sources
Where traits are derived from
What are genes?
In plant cells, a ____ is built between the two daughter cells as they pull apart during cytokinesis?
Cell plate
How many phases are there in meiosis?
Eight
Technology used to amplify or make copies of a gene of interest in order to find mutations in cancer causing genes
PCR
Genetic engineering was first performed to produce ___ bacteria
What is recombinant DNA?
True or False
An organism's phenotype is its observable traits, while the organism's genotype is its underlying genetic makeup
True