Mitosis
The first step of mitosis.
What is prophase?
This is the phase that cells slip into right after dividing that allows the cell a chance to rest.
What is G0?
The main sugar in DNA?
What is deoxyribose?
Enzyme that unzips the DNA.
What is Helicase?
The three differences between plant and animal cells.
What are the cell wall, chloroplast, and large vacuole?
The phase in which sister chromatids separate.
What is anaphase?
Name one checkpoint (in what phase), and the factors that the cell is checking for at that point.
What is G1-go signals, G2-DNA replicated properly?
Links the Deoxyribose together.
What are Phosphates?
The direction that DNA is synthesized.
What is 5' to 3'?
Bacteria and Acrchaea.
What are Prokaryotes?
Phase when the chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell.
What is Metaphase?
The primary purpose of G1 and G2 during interphase
What is growth?
The part of DNA that distinguishes it from other segments of DNA.
What are nucleotides?
The term for the small unit of DNA built on the lagging strand that must be patched together.
What are Okazaki fragments?
The major difference between a prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
No membrane-bound organelles (ie. nucleus, Golgi body, ER).
The two parts that make up the cell division portion of the cycle.
What are mitosis and cytokinesis (10%)?
This happens if the DNA does not copy correctly.
What is Apoptosis or cell death?
The mnemonic for remembering Cytosine and Guanine are always paired with each other.
What is Cars in Garages?
The function of DNA Ligase.
What is join the Okazaki fragments?
How bacteria and viruses are alike.
They have genetic material and lack membrane-bound organelles..
The part of the chromosome where the spindle fibers attach.
What is the centromere?
The gene that turns off shortly after conception that when reactivated can cause cancer.
What is an oncogene?
The mnemonic for Adenine and Thymine pairing in DNA.
What is Apples in Trees?
The result of Synthesis.
What are two identical strands of DNA?
Where many viruses attach to a cell tricking the cell into thinking that the virus belongs there.
What is a site receptor.