Nondisjunction
True or False: Nondisjunction can occur in both Mitosis and Meiosis
TRUE
DNA uncoiled and not easily visible
What is chromatin?
The first phase of mitosis
What is prophase?
Creates gamete cells
What is Meiosis?
A disorder in which body cells lose the ability to control growth.
What is cancer?
Failure of the homologous chromosomes to separate.
What is Nondisjunction?
DNA coiled and visible
What is Chromosome?
The last phase of mitosis
What is telophase?
Male and female gamete cells
What is Sperm and Egg?
Noncancerous tumor
What is benign?
The result of nondisjunction on zygotes
What is 45 or 47 chromosomes?
what is Zygote dies?
Process that copies and makes an exact replica of DNA
What is replication
The shortest phase of mitosis
What is anaphase?
Name for male and female reproductive organs
What is Testes and Ovaries? (will accept What is gonads)
A cancerous tumor
What is malignant?
The result of nondisjunction in gamete cells
What is 22 or 24 Chromosomes?
Half of a double-stranded chromosome
What is Chromatid?
Phase in which chromosomes attach to centrioles via. spindle fiber
What is Metaphase?
Number chromosomes in a gamete cell
What is 23?
This cancer treatment is most harsh on the body, but may be necessary if the patient has a greater amount of genetic mutations.
What is chemotherapy?
Nondisjunction causes what disorders
(Name 4)
What is Down syndrome, Turners syndrome, Edwards syndrome, pataus syndrome, Metafemales, Klinefelter's syndrome, Jacobs syndrome?
The part where the two chromatids are held together
What is centromere?
Creates spindle fibers
What is M&M?
Causes more variety in the offspring
What is crossing over?
The process of programmed cell death not present in cancer
What is Apoptosis?