MITOSIS 1
Cell spends 90% of its time here (Normal cell life)
What is interphase
When a chromosome duplicates, what is the second one called
What is sister chromatid?
In this stage of mitosis, the chromosomes align down the centre of the cell...
What is Metaphase?
This organelle controls what enters or leaves the cell
cell membrane
Tumors that can spread and attack surrounding cells are called
Malignant
DNA replication occurs during
S Phase of Interphase
The division of the cytoplasm is called...
What is cytokinesis?
In this mitosis stage, the chromosomes start to move to the poles of the cell?
What is anaphase?
What organelles does a plant cell have that an animal cell does not?
chloroplast and cell wall
The scientific word for "cell suicide"
Apoptosis
An apparatus of strings that controls chromosome movement during mitosis
What are spindle fibers
Humans have how many chromosomes in each of their somatic cells...
What is 46
the chromosomes first start to condense in this phase
What is prophase?
This organelle converts glucose and other organic molecules into a form of usable cell energy called ATP.
Mitochondria
The cell cycle is regulated at three major checkpoints found during these three phases...
G1, G2, M
When chromatin condenses it becomes a...
Chromosome
DNA that condenses during cell division
What is Chromatin
Cells not replicating properly can results in this
What is cancer
These structures may be found floating freely in the cytoplasm or attached to the endoplasmic reticulum.
Ribosome
The process of a tumor spreading from one part of the body to another
Area where spindle fibers attach to chromosome
What is centromere
What is the nuclear membrane and nucleolus?
Structure that the spindle fibers sprouts from to connect to the chromosome
What are centrioles
Prokaryotic cells differ from eukaryotic cells in that prokaryotic cells do not contain
A nucleus
The enzyme that cancer cells have that signals them to continue cell division
Telomerase