Chapter 8 & 9: Cell Division and Mitosis Flashcards
What is Euchromatin
An accessible chromosome
What is Heterochromatin
Inaccessible chromosome
Where do Microtubules attach to a chromosome?
At the centromere (lil dip in a chromosome)
What is a sister chromatid?
Before mitosis, each chromosome perfectly replicates itself making a pair of two identical chromosomes called sister chromatids
What are the three phases of inter phase
G1, S, G2
What is G0
A phase where a cell that never replicates simply repeats G1 until it dies, cells that do this are called quiescent cells
What happens in G1
The cell grows
What happens in phase S
The cell duplicates DNA making sister chromatids from chromosomes
What happens in G2
The cell continues function as it waits for mitosis
What does G stand for in G1 and G2
G stands for gap gangy
What are the two parts of mitotic phase
Mitosis and Cytokinesis
What are cyclins
proteins that cycle in abundance during the Cell Cycle
What is the Cell Cycle
Interphase and mitotic phase
CDK
cyclin dependent kinase, a kinase that cyclin attaches to like duh tf, when enough cyclin is in cell cycle the kinase takes it and does kinase things forming the maturation promotion factor in the cell … this grows cell
What are the 3 checkpoints
G1, G2 and M (Mitosis to Cytokinesis), checkpoints prevent mutations and uncontrolled division.
What are Chargaff’s rules?
DNA base composition varies between species and each species share roughly the same percentages between AT and GC bases
What is semi-conservative replication
Where each strand of DNA serves as a template to make two new complementary strands
What are origins of Replications
The various points across a chromosome where DNA replication begins
What are replication forks
areas near the origin of replication where the parent DNA splits in two and gets ready to accompany a daughter strand
Replication bubbles
The points behind ORI’s where daughter strands attach to parent strands
What is helicase
Enzymes that unwind and separate DNA
Other wrong models for DNA replication
Conservative model - parent doesn’t split new DNA just appears, Dispersive model - Parent just breaks down and attaches randomly.