The advantage of this type of reproduction is genetic diversity.
What is sexual reproduction
100
This phase of the cell cycle includes the G1 phase, S phase, and G2 phase and is the period of time between cell division.
What is interphase.
100
Name the 4 phases of mitosis in the correct order.
What is prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.
100
The group of proteins that control the timing of the cell cycle.
What is cyclins
100
the process by which cells become specialized to perform a certain function.
What is differentiation
200
A cell is less efficient at exchanging materials across a cell membrane due to a change in what ratio?
What is surface area to volume ratio
200
The phase of the cell cycle where DNA replication occurs.
What is the S phase. (part of interphase)
200
Cytokinesis occurs differently in animal cells and plant cells due to the presence of what structure?
What is a cell wall in plant cells (not flexible)
200
The disorder that results from the uncontrolled cell growth and loss of contact inhibition
What is cancer
200
the mass of cells that develops during human development after 4 days of fertilization.
What is the blastocyst
300
Genetic information is stored in packages of DNA. Humans have 46 pairs of these.
What is chromosomes
300
The M phase is divided into two parts which are defined as the splitting of the nucleus and the splitting of the cytoplasm.
What is mitosis and cytokinesis
300
The phase in mitosis where the nuclear membrane begins to break down.
What is prophase
300
The three most common types of treatment for cancer.
What is surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy
300
A characteristic of an adult stem cell that has the ability to differentiate into only the same type of cell that resembles the tissue it came from.
What is multipotent
400
The process by which prokaryotic cells copy their DNA and divide to produce two genetically identical daughter cells.
What is binary fission
400
When DNA is replicated the genetic information is referred to as "Sister _______________"
What is chromatids
400
The structures in the animal cell where the spindle begins to form during prophase?
What is the centrioles.
400
What is the gene that is referred to as the "Guardian of the Genome" and what process does it trigger when the DNA is stressed.
What is the P53 gene and apoptosis.
400
What are the two type of cells that are being studied in stem cell research?
What is embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells.
500
Two reasons why a cell will not just grow larger but rather has to divide.
What is the demand on the DNA and the decrease in surface area to volume ratio
500
Describe the 4 phases of the cell cycle and what happens at each phase. (The cell cycle NOT mitosis)
What is G1 phase (cell growth), S phase (DNA replication), G2 phase (preparation for cell division), M phase (mitosis and cytokinesis).
500
Explain the difference in cytokinesis in animal and plant cells
What is animal cells pinch inward and divide while plant cells form a cell plate and divide.
500
Describe the concept of contact inhibition and what happens in normal cells versus cancer cells.
What is tumor cells will continuously divide where as normal cells will stop dividing when they come in contact with other cells.
500
Name two techniques that are being studied in order to biomass the ethical concerns with stem cell research.
What is extracting a number of cells without damaging the embryo or controlling the genes to program cells to enter back into their undifferentiated state.