Asexual Cell Reproduction

Question 1

Anaphase

Answer 1

The forth stage of mitosis, in which the chromatids of each chromosome have separated and the daughter chromosomes are moving to the poles of the cell

Question 2

Binary fission

Answer 2

A method of asexual reproduction by “division in half.” In prokaryotes, binary fission does not involve mitosis, but in single-celled eukaryotes that undergo binary fission, mitosis is part of the process

Question 3

Interphase

Answer 3

The period in the cell cycle when the cell is not dividing. During interphase, cellular metabolic activity is high, chromosomes and organelles are duplicated, and cell size may increase.

Question 4

Kinetochore

Answer 4

A structure of proteins attached to the centromere that links each sister chromatid to the mitotic spindle

Question 5

Metaphase

Answer 5

The third stage of mitosis, in which the spindle is complete and the chromosomes, attached to microtubules at their kinetochores, are all aligned at the metaphase plate

Question 6

Mitosis

Answer 6

A process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells divided into five stages:
Prophase
Prometaphase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase

Question 7

Prometaphase

Answer 7

The second stage of mitosis, in which the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the chromosomes

Question 8

Prophase

Answer 8

The first stage of mitosis, in which the chromatin condenses into discrete chromosomes visible with a light microscope, the mitotic spindle begins to form, and the nucleolus disappears but the nucleus remains intact

Question 9

Telophase

Answer 9

The fifth and final stage of mitosis, in which the daughter nuclei are forming and cytokinesis has typically begun