Vocabulary
A repeated pattern of growth, DNA duplication, and cell division that occurs in eukaryotic cells.
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
What is growth and repair?
What is cancer?
Undifferentiated cells that can become differentiated into one or more types of specialized cells.
What are stem cells?
What is a chromosome?
The jelly-like substance filling a cell that surrounds the nucleus.
What is cytoplasm?
What is metaphase?
Cancer causing agents.
What are carcinogens?
Two identical chromosomes that looks like an X.
What are Sister chromatids?
A section of DNA with instructions for making a protein.
The site for photosynthesis in plant cells
What is chloroplast?
The stage of mitosis when the chromosomes are pulled apart and taking to opposite poles of the cell.
What is anaphase?
Spreading of disease from one organ to others.
What is Metastasize?
Cytokinesis formation in Animal cells.
What is a cleavage furrow?
What is differentiation?
a barrel-shaped organelle located in the cytoplasm that plays an important roll in the cell cycle.
What is a centriole?
The stage of the cell cycle when chromosomes make identical copies of themselves.
What is interphase?
What is a Tumor?
Cytokinesis formation in plant cells.
What is a cell plate?
Region of the condensed chromosomes that looks pinched.
Protein structures that grow from centrioles to pull apart genetic material during cell division.
What are spindle fibers?
If a rabbit cell has 44 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will each daughter cell have?
What is 44?
Tumors that have metastasized and spread to other tissues and organs.
What is malignant?
Ends of the DNA molecule.
What is a telomere?