Cell Division

Question 1

Chromosomes?

Answer 1

Coiled up lengths of DNA molecules that carry genes. They are not found in the nucleus and they are normally in pairs in body cells

Question 2

Cell cycle?

Answer 2

A series of stages in which cells divide to produce new cells walls

Question 3

3 things a cell does before it divides?

Answer 3

Grows in size
Increases the amount of sub-cellular structures
Duplicates its DNA

Question 4

Mitosis?

Answer 4

The stage of the cell cycle when the cell divides

Question 5

The cells’s DNA has been doubled: name the features?

Answer 5

Parents cell
Two copies of each chromosome

Question 6

One set of _______ is pulled to each ____ of the cell

Answer 6

Chromosomes
End

Question 7

The next stage after the chromosomes go to each side of the cell wall?

Answer 7

The cytoplasm and cell membranes divide

Question 8

Two cells are formed, which are identical to each other and to the _____ ____

Answer 8

Parent cell