Vocabulary
Asexual Reproduction
Cells & Organelles
Cell Cycle & Mitosis
DNA & Meiosis
100
Cells produced after cell division; identical (mitosis) or unique (meiosis)
(What are) daughter cells
100
The offspring from asexually reproducing organisms are.
(What is) identical to the parent
100
Organelle found in plants where photosynthesis occurs
(What are) chloroplasts?
100
The longest phase of the the cell cycle
What is interphase?
100
The building block of DNA
(What is) a nucleotide?
200
Full name for the molecule that carries genetic instructions in living organisms
(What is) deoxyribonucleic acid
200
The method in which bacteria are able to reproduce.
(What is) binary fission?
200
Cells that lack a true nucleus
(What is) a prokaryotic cell?
200
The final stage of the cell cycle that results in more cells
(What is) cytokinesis?
200
Cells that contain two sets of chromosomes
(What are) diploid cells
300
The process that replaces damaged cells
(What is) Mitosis
300
The form of asexual reproduction used by yeast to create clones
(What is) Budding?
300
Organelles known as the "powerhouse of the cell"
(What are) mitochondria?
300
The stage when the chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell.
(What is) metaphase?
300
Where homologous pairs are separated to opposite poles of a cell
(What is) Anaphase I
400
Where fertilization occurs
(What are) fallopian tubes
400
The parts of a plant that can be used during vegetative propagation to grow into a new plant.
(What are)
-stems, roots, leaves
400
The "brain" of the cell
(What is) the nucleus?
400
The stage when the split chromosomes (individual chromatids) start to move away from each other to ends of the cell
(What is) Anaphase?
400
The base pair rule for hydrogen bonding
(What is) A binds to T; G binds to C
500
The three structures that make up a nucleotide
(What are)
- Phosphate group - (Ribose) Sugars - Nitrogenous bases
500
Three reasons cells undergo mitosis.
(What are)
-Growth
-Replace old/damaged cells
-Asexual reproduction
500
The smallest unit of life
(What is) a cell?
500
The final stage of Mitosis when two cells are beginning to form and the nuclear membranes appear
(What is) telophase?
500
2 identical copies of a chromosome joined at a centromere
(What are) sister chromatids?