Cell Cycle/Regulations
Mitosis
Cell Specialization
Cell Cycle Disruptions
DNA Replication
100

What is the Cell Cycle?

 growth and division of a cell

100

Metaphase

100

What is cell differentiation? 

When a cell gets its specific function.

100

What is uncontrolled cell growth? 

CANCER

100

During what phase of the cell cycle does DNA Replicate? 

S-phase

200

What are the main parts of a cell cycle?

Interphase, Mitosis, and cytokinesis

200

What is the LAST phase of MITOSIS? 

TELOPHASE

200

What is a stem cell? 

A cell with no specific job.

200

Give 3 factors that can cause cancer? 

UV light, radiation, X-Rays, pollution, chemicals

200

What enzyme unwinds DNA? 

Helicase

300

what are checkpoints? 

Check to see if cell is growing properly

300

Define mitosis using 2 words. 

Cell Division

300

Name 3 places where I can find stem cells? 

Bone marrow, embryos, placenta, umbilical cord. 

300

A tumor that cannot spread is called...

Benign

300

DNA moves in opposite directions, this means the strands are...

antiparallel

400

describe Cell Cycle disruptions

can cause a tumor and lead to cancer

400

Mitosis creates what kind of cells? 

IDENTICAL DAUGHTER CELLS

400

TRUE or FALSE: ALL cells have the same DNA. 

TRUE

400

A tumor that can spread and is cancer is called..

Malignant

400

Name the 3 parts of a nucleotide

Phosphate, deoxyribose sugar, nitrogen base

500

When a cell does not pass a checkpoint and it can't be fixed, what happens?

Apoptosis

500

Mitosis occurs in what kind of cells? 

SOMATIC (Body) cells

500

If all cells have the same DNA, why do cells have different functions?

Different genes in the DNA are expressed (turned on)

500

What determines a patients stage of cancer? 

Stage 1, stage 4 cancer

How much the cancer has spread

500

What enzyme binds the new strand of DNA with the original strand? 

DNA Polyemerase