Ch.8 Cell Division Flashcards
Cell reproduction where two daughter cells that result are genetically identical to each other and to the original parent cell.
Cell division
These structures contain most of the cells DNA. These duplicate during cell division before parent cell splits in two. One set is distributed to each daughter cell.
Chromosomes
The creation of genetically identical offspring by a single parent without the participation of sperm and egg.
Asexual reproduction
Which type of organisms asexually reproduce?
Single celled organisms- prokaryotes and eukaryotic yeast
This type of reproductions requires the fertilization of an egg by a sperm.
Sexual reproduction
What are some of the roles of cell division?
- production of gametes
- function in renewal and repair of cells that die from normal wear and tear
- divide every second to replace damaged it lost cells
What are the two types of cell division?
Mitosis
Meiosis
What function does a cell division play in an amoeba? Your body?
- Reproduction
2. Development, growth, repair
Prokaryotes produce by?
Binary fission
This means dividing in half.
Binary fissio
In prokaryotes the majority of their genes are carried on a ____, which constitutes the organisms chromosomes.
Singular circular DNA molecule.
Describe what happens during binary fission.
- As the chromosome is duplicating, the copies move toward opposite ends of the cell elongating the cell
- Duplication is complete and the cell reaches twice it’s initial size where the plasma membrane grows inward and more cell wall is made.
- The parent cell is divided into two daughter cells.
Almost all genes in the cells of humans and I other eukaryotes are found in the cell _____ , grouped into multiple chromosomes.
Nucleus
Each eukaryotic chromosome consists of one long ____ molecule that bears hundreds of thousands of genes.
DNA
What to the protein molecules attached to DNA help maintain?
The chromosomes structure and control the activity of its genes.
This is the material of which the chromosomes of organisms (eukaryotes) are composed. They are a mass of long thin fibers that if stretched would be too long to fit in a cells nucleus.
Chromatin
What materials make up chromatin?
DNA, RNA and protein
Chromosomes of a eukaryotic cell are ______ before they condense and the cell divides.
Duplicated
These are joined copies of the original chromosomes.
Sister chromatids
This is the region where the two sister chromatids are attached together along their lengths by proteins, cinched especially tight.
Centromere
A typical dividing cell has how many duplicated chromosomes and how many chromatids?
46 chromosomes
96 chromatids
The cell cycle includes _____ and _____ phases.
Growing and division
This is the basis of reproduction for every organism.
Cell division
This is an ordered sequence of events that extends from the instant a cell is first formed from a dividing parent cell until its own division into two cells.
Cell cycle
What are the two main stages of a cell cycle?
Interphase- the growing stage
Mitotic- cell division stage
During this phase of cell division, the cell approximately doubles everything in its cytoplasm and precisely replicates its chromosomal DNA.
Interphase
Which phase of a cell cycle lasts for 90% of the total time required?
Interphase
Interphase is divided into what 3 subphases?
- G1
- S phase
- G2
This is the first gap where the cell grows during interphase.
G1
During this phase of interphase “synthesis” of DNA occurs. DNA is replicated, the cell grows, chromosomes doubled- two sister chromatids.
S phase
This is the second gap of interphase where the cell grows even more as it prepares for cell division.
G2