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Cell Division terms
A way to study chapter 3.
Question | Answer |
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cell cycle | The changes the cell goes through from one cell division to the next. |
Regeneration | The process of new tissue growth at the sight of a wound or lost limb. |
Binary Fission | Is the form of asexual reproduction occurring in prokaryotes. |
DNA | A chemicalthat contains information for an organism's growth and functions. |
Chromosomes | Structers that are made of compacted DNA wrapped around proteins. |
Interphase | The part of the cell cycle during which a cell is not dividing. |
Mitosis | The part of the cell cycle during which the nucleus divides. |
Cytokinesis | The division of the parent cell's cytoplasm. |
Asexual Reproduction | One organism produces one or more new organisms that are identical to itself and that live independently of it. |
Budding | The process in which and organism develops tiny buds on its body. |
Prophase | Long strands of DNA condense to sistinct chromosomes, each with two chromatids that are exact copies of each other. |
Metaphase | Chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell. |
Anaphase | Chromatids of each chromosome split into two separate chromosomes. |
Telophase | New nuclear membranes form. |
Sexual Reproduction | A cell containing genetic information from the mother and a cell containing genetic information from the fater combine into a completely new cell, which becomes the offspring. |