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Cell Growth, Division & Reproduction
The Process of Cell Division
Regulating the Cell Cycle
Cell Differentiation
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The process by which a cell divides into two new daughter cells is called

cell division

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Cells go through a series of events known as the

cell cycle

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A mass of cells is called what?

Tumor

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After about 4 days of development, a human embryo forms into what?

blastocyst

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Division of the Cell nucleus is called?

Mitosis

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The production of identical offspring from a single parent is called

asexual reproduction

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The fourth and final phase of mitosis is 

telophase 

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What are the 2 types of proteins that regulate the cell cycle?

Internal and external regulators

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Embryonic stem cell research is controversial because?

It is an ethical issue of life and death

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The four phases of mitosis is (in order)

Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase

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The rate at which materials enter and leave the cell depends on the cell's what?

Surface area 
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Sister chromatids are attached to each other at an area called the

centromere

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The timing in the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells is believed to be controlled by a group of closely related proteins known as what?

Cyclins

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Bone marrow cells that produce blood cells are best categorized as what?


adult stem cells

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An adult organism is gradually formed from a what?

An embryo

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In order for a cell to divide successfully, the cell must first do what?

duplicate its genetic information/DNA

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If a cell has 12 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will each of its daughter cells have after mitosis and cytokinesis?

12

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Programmed cell death is called?

Apoptosis

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The unspecialized cells from which differentiated cells develop is known as what?

Stem Cells

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The process by which cells become specialized is known as?

differentiation

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The process that increases genetic diversity within a population is

sexual reproduction

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In plant cells, what forms midway between the divided nuclei during cytokinesis?

cell plate

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A cell enters anaphase before all of its chromosomes have attached to the spindle. This may indicate that the cell is not responding to what?

Internal Regulators

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Which type of cell has the potential to develop into any type of cell?

totipotent

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All cancers have one thing in common, what is it?

The control over the cell cycle has broken down