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Vocabulary Blitz!
Mighty Mitosis
What's the difference?
Dazzling DNA
Miss. E. Laneous
100
The formation of two new nuclei with identical chromosomes.
What is mitosis?
100
The stage in which centrioles first appear.
What is prophase?
100
While DNA is a double-stranded nucleic acid, RNA is this type of nucleic acid.
What is single-stranded?
100
The master copy of an organisms genetic code.
What is DNA?
100
You will have this many cells  have at the end of meiosis.
What are 4?
200
The nuclear structure containing DNA.
What is a chromosome?
200
The stage in which chromosomes become fully visible.
What is prophase?
200
During mitosis in animal cells, the cytoplasm pinches in to form two new cells during this phase.
What is a telophase?
200
A particular segment of DNA that codes for a specific protein.
What is a gene?
200
This is the complementary strand of the following DNA code: ATCCAG.
What is TAGGTC?
300
The process in which new organisms are produced from just one parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
300
The stage in which double-stranded chromosomes line up across the center of the cell.
What is metaphase?
300
Asexual reproduction results in offspring from one parent. This results in offspring from two parents.
What is sexual reproduction?
300
This unit of DNA has information for producing amino acids. It is 3 bases long.
What are codons?
300
This can be caused by being bitten by a radioactive spider - or by too many X-rays at the clinic.
What is a mutation?
400
The specific process by which bacteria reproduce.
What is fission?
400
During telophase, this structure reforms to create two distinct nuclei.
What is the nuclear membrane?
400
This nucleic acid carries the code for making proteins from the nucleus to the ribosomes.
What is mRNA (messenger RNA)?
400
The number of DNA copies present after replication.
What is 2?
400
DNA replication occurs during this stage of the cell's life cycle.
What is interphase?
500
The specific process by which starfish reproduce a missing body part.
What is regeneration?
500
During this phase, the spindle fibers pull the chromosomes apart.
What is anaphase?
500
These are the nitrogen bases for DNA.
What are A, U, G, and C (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine)?
500
These two men are credited with discovering the structure of DNA.
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
500
These 2 types of cells are always in interphase.
What are nerve and muscle cells?