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Cell division vocab
Question | Answer |
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A type of cell division that results in two daughter cell's that each have the same number of chromosomes as the parent nucleus is? | Mitosis |
_______ ______ are the two cells that are exact copies of the parent cell. | Daughtercell |
A type of cell division called _______ results in four daughter cells with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell. | Meiosis |
______is the material of which that chromosomes of an organisms are composed of | Chromatin |
Two threadlike strands into which a chromosome divides longitudinally during cells division is called _________. | Chromatid |
Duplicated chromosomes are called ______ __________ and are held together by the centromere. | Sisterchromatids |
A threadlike structure that carry's genetic information in the forms of genes is known as ________. | Chromosomes |
Chromosomes that have the same genes but different alleles (one comes from mo and one comes from dad). | HomologousChromosomes |
A ______ Is a unit of heredity that is transferred from parents to offspring that determine some characteristics of the offspring. | Gene |
A method of looking at a ________ to test for different types of disorders such as down syndrome, Turner syndrome, and kinefelters syndrome. | Karyotype |
_________ Are composed of a protein called tublin and found in most Eukaryotic cells. | Centrioles |
A _______ Is the region of a chromosome to which the microtubles of the spindle attach. | Centromere |
The spindle fibers develop from the ______ in cell division. | Centrosome |
An ______ Is a star-shaped structer that is formed during division of the nucleus of an animal cell. | Aster |
Forms from the micro tubes in plants and centrioles in animal cells | SpindleFibers |
The first phase in the cell cycle | Interphase |
The phase in the cell cycle that comes after Interphase is _________ | Prophase |
The phase in the cell cycle in which chromosomes attach to the kinetochore fibers, and move to the center of the cell | Metaphase |
_______ The the phase in the cell cycle where sister chromatids are pulled apart to opposite poles of the cell by kinetochone | Anaphase |
________ Is the phase in the cell cycle where nuclear envelope forms around each set of sister chromatids. | Telophase |
Without _______ The cell would mot be able to divide into two identical half's called daughter cells. | Cytokinesis |
_______ _______ forms around each set of sister chromatids | NuclearEnevelope |
Another name for spindle fibers | KinetochoreFiber |
A small dense spherical structure in the nucleus of a cell during interphase is knowen as _______. | Nucleolus |