Cell Division - Mitosis

Question 1

What is mitosis

Answer 1

Mitosis makes new cells for growth and repair

Question 2

What happens when a body cell divides

Answer 2

It needs to make new cells identical to the original cell with the same number of chromosomes

Question 3

What is each arm of chromosomes

Answer 3

An exact duplicate of the other

Question 4

What happens if the cell gets a signal to divide

Answer 4

It needs to duplicate the DNA so there is one copy for each new cell

Question 5

What happens after the cell gets a signal to divide

Answer 5

The chromosome then line up at the centre of the line cell and cell fibres pull them apart the two arms of each chromosomes go to the opposite ends of the cell

Question 6

What happens after each chromosomes go to opposite ends of the cell

Answer 6

Membranes form around each of the sets of chromosomes.

Question 7

What are membranes that form around sets of chromosomes become

Answer 7

They become the nuclei of the two new cells

Question 8

What is the last step of mitosis

Answer 8

The cytoplasm divide

Question 9

Example of asexual reproduction that uses mitosis

Answer 9

Strawberry plants form runners, the offspring have exactly the same genes as the parent plant so their is no variation