Vocabulary
Packages of DNA is also known as _______
Chromosomes
The 4th phase
Telophase
What is the role of Growth factors?
stimulate growth and division of cells
An in-between period of cell growth
Interphase
The 2nd phase
Metaphase
What is uncontrolled cell growth
Cancer
Chromosomes begin to spread out into a tangle of chromatin
Telophase
The 3rd phase
Anaphase
True/False
Cancer is a disorder in which body cells lose the ability to control cell growth
Division of the cell nucleus
Mitosis
Prophase
What causes cancer?
defects in genes that regulate cell growth and division
Division of the cytoplasm
cytokinesis
What happens during Interphase?
The cell grows and replicates its DNA and centrioles