Cell Cycle
Mitosis
Meiosis
Control
Life cycles
100
This is the longest phase of the cell cycle.
What is interphase?
100
This is the purpose of mitosis.
What is copy a cell?
100
This is the purpose of meiosis.
What is production of cells with half the chromosome number (gametes)
100
Cells tend to reproduce if the ration of surface area to volume is getting too ____
What is LOW?
100
Humans use this process to create gametes.
What is meiosis?
200
These are the 3 parts of interphase.
What is G1, S, and G2 phases?
200
Mitosis is modified in bacteria to a simpler process called this.
What is binary fission?
200
These are the two organs in the human body where meiosis occurs.
What are testes and ovaries?
200
If cells are densely packed together, they ______ tend to reproduce.
What is WILL NOT?
200
Multicellular organisms use mitosis in order to ________
What is GROW or REPLACE CELLS?
300
This is the name for a chromosome that is not visible due to its thinner structure
What is chromatin?
300
This is the correct order of the 4 stages of mitosis.
What is PMAT?
300
Tetrads are formed in this stage by this process.
What is prophase I by joining homologous chromosomes?
300
These are sequences at the end of chromosomes that must be some minimum length in order for a cell to divide.
What is a telomere?
400
This is the main event that happens during the synthesis step of interphase.
What is replication of chromosomes?
400
This is the main event that happens in anaphase.
What is separation of chromatids?
400
Meiosis ultimately produces ___ sperm or ___ egg from one parent cell.
What is 4 and 1?
400
Cells will sometime choose to commit cell suicide and not continue through the cell cycle, and will use a process called _____________.
What is apoptosis?
400
Human females begin meiosis at this point in development.
What is before birth?
500
This type of cell is typically always in interphase, and does not continue to mitosis.
What is a nerve cell?
500
Spindle fibers attach to chromosomes using this structure.
What is a kinetochore?
500
This term describes the failure of chromosomes to separate correctly in either Anaphae I or II.
What is non-disjunction?
500
This process occurs when chromatids exchange segments during prophase I.
What is crossing over?
500
Human males do the process of meiosis in which specific structure of the testes?
What is seminiferous tubules?