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Mitosis & chromosome
Mitosis and chromosomes
| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| In asexual repoduction are the daughter cells identical? | Yes |
| In sexual reproduction are the offspring identical? | No |
| How many chromosomes do bacteria have? | 1 |
| How many choromosomes do humans have? | 46 |
| What is the point when chromosomes become visable witht a light microscope? | Prophase |
| Three reasons cell division is esential: reproduction, (blank) and (blank) | growth of an organism, and replacing damaged cells |
| What is the name of the 'growing' stage of a cell? | Interphase |
| What is the name of the dividing satge of a cell? | Mitotic phase |
| What percentage of a cells life is spent in interphase? | 90% |
| What percentage of a cells life is spent in Mitotic phase? | 10% |
| What is the name of the process that divided a cell into two cells with duplicate chromosomes? | Mitosis |
| What is the name of the process that divides the cytoplasm? | Cytokenisis |
| If you can see the cell nucleous but not the chromosoes, what stage is the cell in? | Interphase |
| You can see the chromosomes ina cell, therefore this cell is in what phase? | Mitotic |
| In what phase do cells change their chromosoes fro the long thin form of chromatin to thick coiled chromosomes? | Prophase |
| How do genes of one chromatid compair with genes of another chromatid (sister chromatids) | Identical |
| At metaphase where are the chromosomes? | Metaphase plane |
| During anaphase what happens to the chromosomes? | divide and get pulled part |
| what phase is the opposite of prophase and metaphase? | Telophase |
| What occurs at the same time as telophase? | Cytokenisis |
| Two chromosomes of a pair are called (blank) chromosomes? | Homologous |
| There are 23 pairs of chromosomes in each human cell, 22 are called (blank) | autosomes |
| if 22 of the 23 chromosomes in the human cell are called autosomes then what is the remaining one called? | sex chromosomes |
| Of the two possible sex chromosomes which is a matched pair of chroosomes? | X female |
| which of the two sex chromosomes is NOT a matched pair? | Y male, One is X one is Y and much shorter. |