Cell Cycle (Mitosis)

Question 1

Also referred to as duplication division

Answer 1

Mitosis

Question 2

What types of cells undergo mitosis

Answer 2

Body cells / somatic cells

Question 3

Mitosis is also called

Answer 3

Somatic cell division

Question 4

Mitosis produces haploid or diploid cells?

Answer 4

2 diploid cells

Question 5

What do prokaryotic cells go through instead of mitosis and meiosis?

Answer 5

Binary fission

Question 6

Tightly coiled DNA strands

Answer 6

Chromosomes

Question 7

Complex set of macromolecules containing loose DNA, RNA, and proteins

Answer 7

Chromatin

Question 8

Condensed chromatin that make up a chromosome

Answer 8

Chromatid

Question 9

A chromosome is made up of how many sister chromatids?

Answer 9

2 sister chromatids

Question 10

Where do the spindle fibers attache during metaphase?

Answer 10

Kinetochores

Question 11

Each chromosome has how many kinetochores?

Answer 11

2

Question 12

What holds the sister chromatids together?

Answer 12

Centromere

Question 13

Contain repeated nucleotides

Answer 13

Telomeres

Question 14

Stages of mitosis

Answer 14

Interphase

M phase

Cytokinesis

Question 15

Period of growth that occurs between cell divisions

Answer 15

Interphase

Question 16

Stages of the interphase

Answer 16

Go phase

G1 phase

S phase

G2 phase

Question 17

Cell leaves the cycle and enters a temporary period of rest

Answer 17

Go phase

Question 18

Phase where organelles divide

Answer 18

G1 phase

Question 19

What checkpoint is present between G1 phase and S phase?

Answer 19

Restriction point (G1 checkpoint)

Question 20

What does the G1 checkpoint check?

Answer 20

If the cell has reached its optimum size and is the environment suitable enough

Question 21

DNA synthesis and chromosome replication

Answer 21

S phase

Question 22

Synthesis of proteins needed for cell division

Answer 22

G2 phase

Question 23

What checkpoint is present after G2 phase?

Answer 23

DNA damage checkpoint

Question 24

What does the DNA damage checkpoint check?

Answer 24

If the DNA is damaged and if it has replicated correctly

Question 25

What phase prepares the cell for cytokinesis

Answer 25

M phase

Question 26

What are the phases of mitosis (m phase)

Answer 26

Prophase

Metaphase

Anaphase

Telophase

Question 27

What happens in prophase?

Answer 27

Condensing of chromosomes

Separation of centrioles

Disintegration of nuclear envelope and nucleolus

Question 28

What happens in metaphase?

Answer 28

Spindle fibres attache to kinetochores of the sister chromatids

alignment of chromosomes on the metaphase plate

Question 29

What is another term for the metaphase plate?

Answer 29

Equatorial plate

Question 30

What checkpoint is present before cell undergoes anaphase?

Answer 30

Spindle checkpoint

Question 31

What happens in anaphase?

Answer 31

Spindle fibers shorten and pull sister chromatids apart to opposite poles of the cells

Question 32

What happens in telophase?

Answer 32

Formation of the nuclear membrane

Two sets of identical chromosomes are positioned at each pole of the cell

Question 33

Phase where the cytoplasm pinches in half

Answer 33

Cytokinesis

Question 34

Result of the constriction of myosin and actin in animal cells

Is produced before animal cells divide

Answer 34

Cleavage furrow

Question 35

Formed by vesicles of a plant cell

Formed before cells divide

Answer 35

Cell plate