Cell Size
Two factors that are compared to determine cell efficiency.
What is surface area and volume?
Function of Interphase
DNA duplication
What is somatic?
Uncontrolled cell growth is called ____
What is cancer?
Name the sugar molecule found in DNA.
What is deoxyribose?
The best surface area:volume ratio for a cell should be ___
What is large?
What are the three phases of the interphase
G1, S, G2
Name the two parts of the cell cycle
What are interphase and mitosis
That term that describes a tumor that can become cancerous.
What is malignant?
This is formed in an animal cell at the end of telophase and during cytokinesis.
What is a cleavage furrow?
The surface area of a "cell" is 24 cm. The volume the of the same "cell" is 8 cm. Name the SA:V ratio.
What is 3?
What is the longest stage of interphase
G1
The phase DNA is replicated during the cell cycle.
hint: be specific
What is S phase of interphase
The three treatments for cancer.
What are chemo, radiation, and surgery?
The stage in mitosis the sister chromatids split.
What is anaphase?
Name the adaptation does a plant cell have to increase its SA:V ratio.
What is decreases volume?
Cell grow and carry out normal functions
The structures that hold the sister chromatids together
What are centromeres?
p53 gene regulates this during the cell cycle.
What is DNA replication?
The enzyme that brings in nucleotides and builds a complementary DNA strand
What is DNA polymerase?
Name the adaptation that red blood cells or skin cells have that increase their SA:V ratio?
What is flatten out?
What is cytokineses?
the method by which a cell's cytoplasm divides, creating a new cell.
The from of DNA is in when the cell is not undergoing cell division.
What is chromatin?
Another name for cell death.
What is apoptosis?
Name the three parts of a nucleotide
What are sugar, phosphate and nitrogen base?