Cell Divison 🧫 Flashcards
Two events during prophase
Spindle forms,
Chromosomes become shorter
event in metaphase
Spindle attach to chromosome
How cell Divison occurs in an animal and a plant cell
Cleavage furrow forms,
Cell plate forms
Explain diploid
Two sets of chromosomes
Two functions of mitosis in animal cells
Growth,
Tissue repair
Two human cells not produced by mitosis
Sperm,
Egg
What type of microscope is used in a school laboratory
Light microscope
Define mitosis
Cell division,
Forming two identical daughter cells
Two ways meiosis differs from mitosis
Meiosis produces four new cells,
Variation-they are not identical
Explain term cancer
Uncontrolled mitosis
What cell Divison occurs in plants
Meiosis followed by mitosis
What cell division occurs in humans
Meiosis
Function of mitosis in single celled organisms
Asexual reproduction
Term used when cell division is not occurring
Interphase
Two bio molecules produced in the cell during interphase
Nucleic Acid, Protein
Organelle that is replicated during interphase
Mitochondrion
Two changes that will have occurred in the cell by the end of interphase
Spindle forms,
Chromosomes become shorter
Why do red blood cells not undergo cell division
No nucleus
One location where mitosis occurs in flowering plants
Meristematic tissue
Name cells that animal meiosis is essential for
Sperm
Role of meiosis in the life cycle of the flowering plant
Produces spore
