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1
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Is there a limit to the size of a cell?

A

Yes

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2
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What is there between the volume and area of a cell?

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A critical relationship

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3
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What is a parent cell?

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A cell that has grown and must divide

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4
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What are daughter cells?

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2 identical cells

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5
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What is fission?

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The process where 1 cell splits into 2 cells

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6
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What is different about cancer cells?

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Cancer cells reproduce cells at an uncontrollable rate and are unrelated to the cells around them

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7
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What can mitosis also be known as?

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Karyokinesis

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8
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Mitosis is NOT what?

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Not the actual division of a cell

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9
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What is mitosis?

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All things that happen to a cell up to the actual division of a cell

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10
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What is mitosis?

And is what process from Protein Synthesis?

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The duplication of nuclear material (Replication)

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11
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Mitosis happens to every cell in your body but…

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Sperm and egg cells

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12
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Do cells grow?

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Yes

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13
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What are the 2 phases of fission?

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Mitosis

Cytokinesis

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14
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What is cytokinesis?

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The actual splitting of cells

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15
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What are the 5 phases of mitosis?

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Interphase
Prophase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase
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16
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What are the letters of mitosis and how do I remember them?

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I     I
P    Picked
M   Many
A    Apples
T    Today
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17
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How many chromosomes do humans have?

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46

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18
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How many pairs of chromosomes do humans have?

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23

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19
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What kind of a core does a protein have?

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Protein

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20
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What are inside chromosomes?

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DNA

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21
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What is the 1st part of a cell life?

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Mitosis

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22
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What is the 2nd step of the cell life?

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Cytokinesis

23
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What is the 3rd step of cell life?

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G1 phase

24
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What is the 4th step of the cell life?

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S-Phase

25
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What is the S-Phase an example of?

A

Replication dealing with DNA

26
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What is the 5th step of the cell life?

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G2 phase

27
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What is the general name of the G1 phase, S-phase, and G2 phase?

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Interphase

28
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What are the 2 types of reproduction?

A

Asexual and sexual

29
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What are the two things about asexual reproduction?

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  • 1 cell splitting into 2 cells

- not 2 cells forming 1 cell

30
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What are two examples of asexual reproduction?

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1) Binary Fission (Mitosis)

2) Budding (Yeast)

31
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What is the different between binary fission and budding with asexual reproduction?

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The cells do not divide evenly in budding like they do for binary fission

32
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What is the definition of sexual reproduction and what does it mean?

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-fission of specialized cells

means, the coming together of sperm and egg cells

33
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Gametes are ???

A

Sexual reproductive cells

34
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What are the 2 sexual reproductive cells?

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Fe- egg (ovum)

M- sperm

35
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What is another name for the female egg cell?

A

Ovum

36
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What is fertilization?

A

The actual fusion of gametes

37
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What is a zygote?

A

A fertilized egg

38
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What is a hermaphrodite?

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An organism that contains both male and female sex cells

39
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What are 2 examples of a hermaphrodite?

A

Earthworm, tapeworm

40
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How many chromosomes do humans have? How many pairs is that?

A

46 chromosomes

23 pair

41
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XX is what kind of pair

A

A homologous pair

42
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How many homologous pairs do males have?

How many do females have?

A

Males- 22 pair

Females- 23 pair

43
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What is a diploid cell?

A

Cell that has the full number of chromosomes

44
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What can a diploid cell be referred to as?

A

2n

45
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What are a few examples of diploid cells?

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Skin, muscle, bone, nerve, kidney

46
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What is a haploid cell?

A

A cell that has half the full number of chromosomes

47
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What can a haploid cell be referred to as?

A

n

48
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What are a few examples of haploid cells?

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Sperm, egg

49
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What is meiosis?

A

Cell division in sperm and egg

50
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What happens in meiosis?

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The # number of chromosomes is cut in half

51
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What does a haploid cell start with, and what does it end with?

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A haploid cell starts with 1 Diploid cell, and end with 4 haploid cells

52
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Spermatogenisis

A

Process of sperm formation

53
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Oogenesis

A

Process of egg formation

54
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XX is a

A

Tetrad

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