Cell Cycle
Mitosis
Cancer
Stem Cells
Cell Growth
100

The part of the cell cycle where the organelles are synthesized.

What is G2 phase?

100

The purpose of Mitosis is to generate two

What is nuclei?

100

The reason cancer cells develop.

What are malfunctioning cell cycle checkpoints?

100

Stem cells can be found in an adult here as they become red and white blood cells.

What is the bone marrow?

100

The increasing cell reaching, and exceeding, the DNA capability of the cell causes this.

What is division(information crisis)?

200

The part of the cell cycle where the cytoplasm is divided forming 2 daughter cells.

What is cytokinesis?

200

The phase of Mitosis where the spindle disappears.

What is Telophase?

200

A cancer cell that attacks another cancer cell.

What is a hypertumor?

200

Nerve, muscle, and blood cells are all specific cells. These all arose from stem cells due the the activation of this.

What are genes? 

200

When the volume of a cell increases faster than the surface area this decreases.

What is exchange of materials?

300

The function of S phase in the cell cycle.

What is DNA replication(copying)?

300

The phase of Mitosis where the chromosomes first appear.

What is prophase?

300

A cancer cell extracts these two things from an organism.

What are energy and nutrients?

300

A disease of adult humans resulting in memory loss that may be reversed due to stem cell therapy.

What is Alzheimer's disease?

300

The cuboidal cell of a human has a length of 1 cm on each side.  The resulting surface area to volume would be

What is 6:1?

400

The parts of the cell cycle with checkpoints.

What are G1, G2, and M (metaphase) phases?

400

The phase of Mitosis where the sister chromatids migrate to the opposite ends of the cell.

What is anaphase?

400

Cancer cells break this form of inhibition when they grow into a tumor.

What is density dependent inhibition?

400

Stem cell therapy is controversial because they are harvested from these.

What is a human embryo?

400

Water and oxygen are needed along with this to help all cells generate energy.

What is Glucose?

500

The two major parts of the cell cycle.

What are Interphase and Cell Division?

500

When telomeres are exhausted due to excessive cell division and the cell does not die by programmed cell death this results

What is a senescent cell?

500

Cancer cells develop from exposure to radiation, chemicals, and toxins resulting in changes to the DNA.  The name of this change is

What is a mutation?

500

Stem cells from the brain of this embryonic organism have been successfully planted in the adult resulting in increased function.

What is a mouse?

500

The two items that would "waste" from cellular reactions.

What are water and carbon dioxide?