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Cell division Flashcards

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what do organisms need to have to become multicellular?

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> a communication system between cells
A system to supply all cells with enough nutrients
a system to control exchanges with the environment

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what are the advantages of being multicellular?

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it allows the organism to become bigger and more complex as well as allowing cells to have different roles (cell differentition)

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what is mitosis?

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the process of creating new body (haploid) cells.

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  1. What does haploid mean?

2. What does diploid mean?

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  1. it has a full set of chromosomes (23 pairs)

2. it has a half set of chromosomes (23)

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  1. What does haploid mean?

2. What does diploid mean?

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  1. it has a full set of chromosomes (23 pairs)

2. it has a half set of chromosomes (23)

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describe mitosis in 5 steps?

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  1. a body cell copies all of its chomosomes
  2. spindles form, pulling the chromosomes from the top and bottom so they arrange along the equator
  3. the spindles pull the two sets of chromosomes apart and
  4. the cell split with a set of chromosomes in each of the two new cells
  5. two genetically identical cells
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what is meiosis?

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the process of creating new gametes (sex cells) (diploid0

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what is meiosis?

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the process of creating new gametes (sex cells) (diploid)

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what is mitosis?

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the process of creating new body (diploid) cells.

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  1. What does haploid mean?

2. What does diploid mean?

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  1. it has a half set of chromosomes (23)

2. it has a full set of chromosomes (23 pairs)

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Describe the process of mitosis in 5 steps:

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  1. a body cell copies all of its chromosomes
  2. spindles form, pulling the chromosomes from the top and bottom so they arrange along the equator
  3. the spindles pull the two sets of chromosomes apart and
  4. the cell split with a set of chromosomes in each of the two new cells
  5. two genetically identical cells
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what is meiosis?

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the process of creating new gametes (sex cells) (haploid)

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Describe the process of meiosis in 5 steps:

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  1. the diploid cells are copied and arranged as an x
  4. 5.
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