The Overall Cycle
The Longest Phase
The Shortest Phase
DNA
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100
This is the name of the overall cycle.
What is the cell cycle?
100
This is the name for the phase in the overall cycle when the cell is not dividing.
What is Interphase?
100
This is the name for the shortest phase/stage in the overall cycle.
What is Mitosis, or the "M Phase"?
100
This is the organelle in plant cells that holds genetic information.
What is the nucleus?
100
This is the name for the cells formed at the end of the cell cycle.
What are daughter cells?
200
This is the longest phase in the cycle.
What is Interphase?
200
This is the part of _____ when DNA is being replicated/copied.
What is the "S Phase," or the "Synthesis Phase"?
200
This is the sequence of letters that stand for the phases in the shortest phase of the overall cycle.
What is PMAT?
200
This is the name for the form that genetic information "condense into" before the cell divides.
What are chromosomes?
200
This is the name for "half" of the chromosome.
What is chromatid?
300
These are the TWO main phases of the overall cycle.
What are Interphase and Mitosis?
300
This is the part of ________ when the cell is growing.
What is G1?
300
This is the stage in _______ when the nucleus is going away/disintegrating.
What is Prophase?
300
This is the part of the cell cycle in which genetic information is replicated/copied.
What is the S Phase?
300
This is the part that forms during telophase in a plant cell, but not in an animal cell.
What is a cell plate?
400
These are the phases/stages in the longest phase of the overall cycle.
What are G1, S, and G2?
400
This is the part of _________ when the cell is preparing for division.
What is G2?
400
This is the phase in ________ when the chromosomes are being pulled apart, to opposite ends of the cell.
What is Anaphase?
400
This is the name of the "circular" part of the chromosome.
What is the centromere?
400
This is a disorder that results from uncontrolled cell division.
What is cancer?
500
This is the part of the overall cycle when the cell divides.
What is Mitosis? Also called the M Phase.
500
This "cell part" is fully formed during the ________ phase.
What is the nucleus?
500
This is the phase in _______ when the cell has completely separated into 2 identical cells.
What is Cytokinesis?
500
This is what happens to the DNA during Telophase.
It is enclosed in a nucleus. In other words, the nuclear membrane re-forms around it.
500
Overexposure to this can cause skin cancer in animals.
What is sunlight/UV light/radiation?