| Question | Answer |
| What is the cell cycle made up of? | Interphase, Mitosis, and Cytokinesis |
| What's interphase? | *Cell grows to mature size.
*Makes copy of DNA |
| What's Mitosis? | Mitosis (cell division) has 4 phases |
| What's prophase? | The chromatin in the nucleus condenses together to form chromosomes |
| What's metaphase? | Chromosomes line up across the center of the cell |
| What's Anaphase? | Chromatids separate and move to opposite ends of cell |
| What's Telophase? | New nuclear membrane forms around each group of chromosomes |
| What's Cytokinesis? | *Cell pinches in 2
*Each daughter cell ends up with the same # of identical chromosomes |
| Characteristics of living thins, List 4 | 1.)Living things acquire & use energy
2.) Living things respond to stimuli
3.) Living things reproduce
4.)Living things have the capacity to evolve |
| What's Meiosis? | sexual reproduction (egg and sperm cells) |
| Binary fission | a form of asexual reproduction & prokaryotic cells divide through binary fission, (produces 2 genetically identical cells) |
| Asexual reproduction? | doesn't need a partner to reproduce. (by itself) |
| sexual reproduction? | needs both parents to reproduce (sperm and egg) |
| what 3 things is cell division for? | 1.) reproduction
2.) Growth
3.) and new cells are created |
| whats a centromere? | the most condensed and constricted region of a chromosome, the spindle fiber is attached during mitosis |
| humans have __ chromosomes | 46 |
| what are the kinds of cell divison | binary fission, meiosis, and mitosis |
| prokaryotes don't have a | true nucleaus |
| eukaryotes have a true | nucleaus |
