Ch 7 pt 3 Flashcards
Continuous
Doesn’t stop. Examples are size and height
Discrete
opposite of continuous. Examples boy or girl. 1,2,3,4
Centrosome
Microtubule organizing center
Nuclear envelope
surrounds the nucleus of a cell
Aster
A radial array of short microtubules extending from each centrosome
Kinetochore microtubule
proteins tubules associated with the kinetochore
Metaphase plate
an imaginary structure at the midway point between the spindle structure’s two poles.
Spindle
a structure made of microtubules that control chromosomes movement during mitosis
Cleavage
a process in animal cells during which cytokinesis occurs.
Binary Fission
Prokaryotes reproduce when the chromosomes replicate and the two daughter chromosomes actively move apart.