Cell Division and Mitosis:
This phase of mitosis is characterized by sister chromatids being pulled to opposite sides of the cell.
What is anaphase?
This phase of mitosis is marked by chromosomes condensing and the nuclear envelope breaking down. What is prophase?
What is prophase?
The S phase of the cell cycle is when these processes occur.
What is DNA replication?
Cells are generally small because of this relationship between surface area and volume.
What is surface area increasing more slowly than volume as a cell grows?
This type of reproduction involves offspring genetically identical to the parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
During plant cell cytokinesis, this structure forms midway between the divided nuclei.
What is the cell plate?
The result of cytokinesis in animal cells is facilitated by this structure pinching inward. What is the cleavage furrow?
What is cleavage furrow?
This event occurs immediately before a cell divides.
What is the copying of the cell’s genetic material?
This aspect of cells limits their size and efficiency in material movement.
What is the surface area-to-volume ratio?
The number of daughter cells produced during mitosis.
What are two?
If a cell has 12 chromosomes, this is the number of chromosomes each daughter cell will have after mitosis and cytokinesis.
What is 12?
In eukaryotic cells, chromosomes are visible and aligned in the center during this mitotic phase.
What is metaphase?
In the cell cycle diagram, this phase directly precedes the G2 phase.
What is the S phase?
Cell A, smaller than Cell B, likely exchanges materials more efficiently due to this ratio.
What is a higher surface area-to-volume ratio?
The process by which a cell divides its cytoplasm.
What is cytokinesis?
The process that increases genetic diversity within a population.
What is sexual reproduction?
The part of mitosis where nuclear envelopes reform around separated chromosomes.
What is telophase?
These two main stages of the cell cycle alternate in a repeating pattern.
What are interphase and mitosis?
The reason nutrients and waste move efficiently in smaller cells.
What is the increased efficiency of the cell membrane's surface area?
True or False, In mitosis daughter cells have the same number of chromosomes and identical genetic information.
What is true?
The chromosomes align at the center of the cell during this phase of mitosis.
What is metaphase?
This stage follows mitosis and involves the division of the cytoplasm.
What is cytokinesis?
DNA is replicated during this specific phase of the cell cycle.
What is the S phase?
As cells grow larger, this occurs with their volume relative to surface area.
What is the volume increasing faster than surface area?
True or False Cytokinesis in animal cells involves a cleavage furrow.
What is true?