Mitosis
Name the phases of mitosis
Prophase, Prometaphase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase
The number of pairs of chromosomes
What is 23?
The type of tumor that is non-cancerous
What is benign?
Cell's genetic information
What is a genome?
The term used when there is an extra copy of an autosome
What is autosome?
The phase where chromatid pairs meet in the middle of the cell
What is metaphase?
The is the term used when two homologous chromosomes are exchanging information
What is crossing over?
The substance that causes cancer
What is a carcinogen?
2 sets of chromosomes
What is diploid?
Term used when there is one less copy of an autosome
What is monosomics?
The phase in which sister chromatids separate from each other
What is anaphase?
This happens to the number of chromosomes during meiosis
What is decreasing?
Cancer develops only after a cell develops how many "hits"?
What is 6?
1 set of chromosomes
What is haploid?
Down Syndrome is caused by this
What is an extra chromosome 21?
This is the phase where chromosomes become chromatin (uncoiling)
What is telophase?
These are the gametes that form in the testes and ovaries during meiosis
What is spermtogenesis (testes) and oogenesis (ovaries)?
The term used when cancer cells spread to other parts of the body
What is metastasis?
Replicated strands of a chromosome
What are chromatids?
Term used when chromosomes fail to separate in meiosis
What is nondisjuction?
The number of uses that mitosis has
What is 4?
The number of cell divisions that occur in meiosis
What is 2?
This carries tumors to other parts of the body
What is blood?
The cytoplasmic division of a cell at the end of mitosis and meiosis
What is cytokinesis?
Pictures of homologous chromosomes lined up together
What are karyotypes?