Chapter 9-10 quiz Flashcards
Why is cell division important to multicellular organisms?
It enables them to develop from a single cell and, once fully grown, to renew, repair, and replace cells as needed
What is the continuity of life based on?
cell division
What best distinguishes living and nonliving organisms?
The ability of something to produce their own
What is the cell cycle?
the life of a cell from the time it is first formed from a dividing parent cell until its own division into 2 daughter cells
What is the most common result of cell division?
The distribution of identical genetic material(DNA) to two daughter cells
What is a genome?
All the DNA in a cell
What are chromosomes?
What DNA is packaged into in cells, consisted of DNA associated with proteins to maintain structure
What is chromatin?
A complex of DNA and protein that make up Eukaryotic chromosomes
What are somatic cells?
nonreproductive cells that have 2 sets of chromosomes
What are gametes?
reproductive cells(sperm and eggs) that have one set of chromosomes
What are sister chromatids?
joined, identical copies of the original chromosome
What is the centromere?
Where the chromatids are most closely attached, joined by proteins that are bound to the centromeric DNA sequences
What, in short, is done in preparation of cell division?
DNA is replicated and chromosomes condense
How/when do sister chromatids become chromosomes?
Once the sister chromatids have moved and separated into two nuclei, they are chromosomes
When are mitosis and meiosis used?
Mitosis is used in Eukaryotic cell division, meiosis is used to produce gametes
What does meiosis yield?
nonidentical daughter cells with only one set of chromosomes, half as many as he parent cell
What is the interphase?
The phase of the cell cycle including cell growth and copying of chromosomes in preparation for cell growth
What phases is the interphase divided into?
- G1 phase-“first gap”, growth
- S phase-“synthesis”, growth and duplication
- G2 phase-“second gap”, growth
What are the phases of mitosis?
- Prophase
- Prometaphase
- Metaphase
- Anaphase
- Telophase
How many chromosomes so gametes and somatic cells have?
Somatic: 46
Gametes: 23
What is cytokinesis?
The division of the cytoplasm immediately following mitosis
What happens in G2 of interphase?(mitosis)
- Nuclear envelope forms
- 2 centrosomes have formed by duplication of a single centrosome. The centrosome organize the microtubules of the spindle in animal cells
- Chromosome duplicated in the S phase have NOT condensed
What happens in the prophase(mitosis)?
- Chromosomes begin to condense
- Each duplicated chromosome appears as identical sister chromatids joined at their centromeres
- Mitotic spindle forms
- Centrosomes move away
- nucleoli appear
What happens in the prometaphase?(mitosis)
- Nuclear envelope disappears
- Microtubules enter the nuclear area
- Chromatids condense further
- Each pair of chromatids now has a kinetochore
- Some microtubules attach to the kinetochores
- Nonkinetochores interact with those from the opposite side of the spindle
What happens in the metaphase of mitosis?
- Centrosomes have moved to opposite poles
- Metaphase plate forms
- All kinetochore microtubules are connected to kinetochore microtubules coming from opposite poles
What happens in the anaphase of mitosis?
- Phase begins when cohesion proteins are broken, separating chromatids and making chromosomes and bringing the new daughter chromosomes to opposite ends of the cell
- Cell elongates due to kinetochores
- By the end of this phase the two ends of the cell are equivalent and have complete collections of chromosomes
What happens in the Telophase of Mitosis?
- 2 daughter nuclei form and nuclear envelopes form from fragments of the parent’s nuclear envelope and other portions of the endomembrane system
- Nucleoli reappear
- Chromosomes become less condensed
- Any remaining spindle microtubules are depolymerized
- Mitosis is complete after this phase
What happens in cytokinesis(mitosis)?
- Starts during late telophase
- Cleavage furrow develops in animal cells, cell is pinched in two
- In plant cells, a cell plate forms
What is the mitotic spindle?
A structure made of fibers made of microtubules and associated proteins that controls chromosome movement during mitosis. In animal cells, their assembly begins in the centrosome
What is an aster?
A radial array of short microtubules extending from each centrosome
What are the parts of the mitotic spindle?
Centrosomes, spindle microtubules, and he asters
What are kinetochores?
Protein complexes that assemble on sections of DNA at centromeres
What are centrosomes?
A subcellular region containing material that functions throughout the cell cycle to organize the cell’s microtubules
What is responsible for elongating a cell in anaphase? how does this work?
nonkinetochore microtubules, they overlap extensively during the metaphase, and motor protein attached to the microtubules walk them away from each other and push the spindle poles apart
What causes a cleavage furrow to form and pinch into two parts?
actin microfilaments interact with myosin molecules to form a ring around the cleavage furrow and contract and pull like a drawstring