Stages
Phases
Vocabulary Terms 1
Vocabulary Terms 2
Miscellaneous
100

The number of stages in the cell cycle. 

What is three?

100

The number of phases in the cell cycle.

What is four?

100

True or False: Cells made through the cell cycle are  identical.

True

100

The making of exact copies of DNA.

What is replication?

100

The longest phase in the cell cycle.

What is interphase?

200

This happens to the number of cells after each division. 

What is doubles?

200

The nuclear envelope breaks down in this phase.

What is prophase?

200

These attach to the centromeres.

What are spindle fibers?

200

Cylindrical structures at opposite ends of the cell.

What are centrioles?

200

The shortest phase in the cell cycle.

What is cytokinesis?

300

The cytoplasm divides in this stage. 

What is cytokinesis?

300

Chromosomes separate in this phase.

What is anaphase?

300

Threadlike structures of DNA and proteins.

What are chromosomes?

300

This forms in an animal cell during cytokinesis.

What is a cleavage furrow?

300

The functions of cell division.

What are growth, repair, and reproduction?

400

The cell grows, copies DNA, and prepares for division in this stage.

What is interphase?

400

Chromosomes attach to spindle fibers in this phase.

What is metaphase?

400

Like a belt for a chromosome.

What is a centromere?

400

This forms in a plant cell during cytokinesis.

What is a cell plate.

400

4 cells going through the cell cycle become this many cells.

What is eight?

500

The cell's nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one set of DNA is distributed into each daughter cell in this stage. 

What is mitosis?

500

Nuclei form, spindles disappear, and a cleavage furrow forms in this phase.

What is telophase?

500

Half of a chromosome.

What is a chromatid?

500

The abbreviation for the mitosis stages.

What is PMAT?

500

These stages take about 1 hour

What is cell division/mitosis and cytokinesis.