Cell Cycle Flashcards
Gamete
are an organism’s reproductive cells
Binary fission
asexual reproduction by a separation of the body into two new bodies
Gene
is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA or RNA
Chromosome
is a long DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.
Chromatid
is one half of a duplicated chromosome.
Centromere
is the specialized DNA sequence of a chromosome that links a pair of sister chromatids.
Homologous Chromosome
are a set of one maternal and one paternal chromosome that pair up with each other inside a cell during fertilization.
Diploid
is a cell or organism that has paired chromosomes, one from each parent.
Haploid
is the quality of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes
Zygote
is a eukaryotic cell formed by a fertilization event between two gametes.
Karyotype
is the process by which photographs of chromosomes are taken in order to determine the chromosome complement of an individual,
Cell Cycle
is the series of events that take place in a cell that cause it to divide into two daughter cells.
Interphase
is the portion of the cell cycle that is not accompanied by observable changes under the microscope
Mitosis
is a part of the cell cycle, in which, replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei.
Cytokinesis
is the part of the cell division process during which the cytoplasm of a single eukaryotic cell divides into two daughter cells.
Cancer
is the name for a group of more than 100 diseases in which cells begin to grow out of control.
Meiosis
is a special type of cell division of germ cells in sexually-reproducing organisms used to produce the gametes
