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CELL AND NUCLEAR DIVISION Flashcards

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what are the three stages of the cell cycle?

A 
interphase
nuclear division (mitosis)
cell division (cytokinesis)
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what are the stages of interphase?

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G1
S
G2

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what is interphase?

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when the cell is metabolically active and is growing and copying chromosomes in preparation for cell division

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what happens in G1 phase?

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the cell is growing and producing new organelles

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what happens in S phase?

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replication of DNA

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what happens in G2 phase?

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preparation of the cell for mitosis like checking DNA for errors

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what does a centromere do?

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it hold the two sister chromatids together

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what is mitosis and what are it’s stages?

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nuclear division

four stages:
prophase
metaphase
anaphase
telophase
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what happens in prophase?

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chromosomes coil, condense and become visible
nucleolus disappears
nuclear envelope disappears
centrosomes form spindle fibers

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what happens in metaphase?

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chromosomes line up at the equator and attach to the spindle fibers by their centromeres

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what happens in anaphase?

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spindle fibers contract and centromeres divide and separate the sister chromatids

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what happens in telophase?

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chromosomes uncoil and become chromatin
nuclear envelope reappears
nucleolus reappears
spindle fibers disappear

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what happens in cytokinesis in animal cells?

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a cleavage furrow is formed and the two cells pinch off

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what happens in cytokinesis in plant cells?

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a cell plate forms between the divided nuclei and the cell plate gradually develops into a cell wall

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what are the roles of mitosis?

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growth
repair of damaged tissues
asexual reproduction; in bacteria eg.

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what are stem cells?

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undifferentiated cells that can divide an unlimited amount of times by mitosis

17
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what are totipotent stem cells?

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can produce any type of cell

18
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what are pluripotent stem cells?

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embryonic stem cells that cannot produce all types of cells

19
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what are multipotent stem cells?

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only able to produce a few types of cells

20
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what is stem cell therapy?

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the introduction of new adult stem cells in damaged tissue to treat disease or injury

21
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what is cancer?

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a disease in result of an uncontrolled mitosis due to a mutation in the genes that control cell division.

cells divide repeatedly out of control which causes a tumour

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