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.