Stages
This happens during the G1 Phase of the cell cycle.
What is cell growth?
Define mitosis.
The accurate separation of the cell's replicated DNA. Results in two daughter cells that are genetically identical.
This happens in metaphase.
Spindle fibers align chromosomes at the cell's equator.
Cells go through the cell cycle for this reason.
What is to divide?
What is the purpose of the centromere?
It ensures that a complete copy of the replicated DNA will become part of the daughter cells at the end of the cell cycle.
This happens during the S phase of the cell cycle.
The cell copies the DNA.
These cells do mitosis.
What are somatic cells (body cells)?
This is the third stage within mitosis.
What is anaphase?
Why is cell size limited?
The ratio of its surface area to its volume.
Structures that contain identical copies of DNA.
What are sister chromatids?
This happens during the G2 Phase.
What is preparing for mitosis?
This is the first phase within mitosis.
What is prophase?
What happens during anaphase?
Sister chromatids separate and travel to opposite ends.
What happens in interphase?
The cell prepares for mitosis.
What two substances signal the cellular reproduction process?
Proteins called cyclins bind to enzymes called cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) in the stages of interphase and mitosis to start the various activities that take place in the cell cycle. Different cyclin/CDK combinations control different activities at different stages in the cell cycle.
What is cell division?
The chromosomes, pairs of sister chromatids, condense and become visible.
This is the fourth phase within mitosis.
What is telophase?
Define differentiation.
Cells that have become specialized cells.
Cancer cells spend less time in interphase than normal cells, which means cancer cells grow and divide unrestrained as long as they're supplied with nutrients.
This acronym is used to remember the phases within mitosis.
What is PMAT?
This is the second phase within mitosis.
What is metaphase?
What happens during telophase?
The cell divides.
In cells, the surface area to volume ratio gets smaller as the cell does this.
The cell gets larger.
When one cell divides into two daughter cells after mitosis.
What is cytokinesis?