Mitosis How Cells Divide
Every day, every hour, every second one of the most important events in life is going on in your body—cells are ____________.
A. breaking
B. moving
C. dividing
What is dividing
•an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
A. organism
B. thing
C. alien
What is an organism.
a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell
What is meiosis
The control center of the cell
What is the nucleus
This looks like a black spot under a microscope
What is the nucleus
When cells divide, they make _______________.
A. chromosomes
B. new cells
C. cancer
What is making new cells.
•cells that divide into two, four, and so on
A. cell division
B. cell subtraction
C. cell multiplication
What is cell division.
gene information in someone’s DNA coming from their parent’s
What is genetic information
This gives the cell strength
What is the cell wall
This holds water and waste and is a hole in the cell
What is a vacuole
What are some reasons why cells divide?
A. to replace old or damaged cells and to help things grow
B. to cause cancer
C. to make you sneeze
A. to replace old or damaged cells and to help things grow
•when cells duplicate their contents and then divide to yield two cells with similar, if not duplicate, contents
A. cell babies
B. cell reproduction
C. cell division
What is cell reproduction.
How many haploid daughter cells are there in meiosis
What four haploid daughter cells
The cover of the cell
What is the cell membrane
All living things are composed of
What are cells
When cells divide too much they cause __________.
A. diabetes
B. tooth aches
C. cancer
What is cancer.
•is a single cell divides into two cells that are the same and have the same number of chromosomes
A. mitosis
B. cell production
C. cancer
What is mitosis.
Mitosis is what helps us grow and Meiosis is why we are all __________________!
What is different
This sends things outside the cell
What is the golgi body
Who uses the Scientific Method
What are scientists
How many cells divide in our body every day?
A. one billion
B. two trillion
C. five hundred
What is two trillion.
•divides into two cells that have half the number of chromosomes
A. cancer
B. cell reproduction
C. meiosis
What is an meiosis.
the reason full siblings made from egg and sperm cells from the same two parents can look very different from one another.
What is genetic recombination
Any number of organized structures within a living cell
What is an organelle
One of the two reasons why scientists use the Scientific Method.
What are-
1. to solve a problem
2. to answer a question