Chapter 9 Cell Division Flashcards
What are the 2 types of cell reproduction?
1) Asexual reproduction
( Common in prokaryotic cells
does not involve fertilization)
2) Sexual reproduction
(Involves male and female cells
in most living things)
How does Prokaryotic cells divide?
They divide by Binary fission where the cells single chromosome duplicated and moves to opposite end of the cell and divide into 2
What are the 4 Stages of Binary Fission?
1)Single Chromosome will duplicated
2) Separate the copies
3) Continued growing of the cell and movement of the copies to the ends of the cell
4) it will than divide into 2 cells
What is the advantage and disadvantages of Asexual reproduction?
Advantages:
1) can reproduce without finding mates
2) can reproduce quickly as no time or energy is spent making gametes
Disadvantages:
1) They are genetically identical
2) if environment changes and affects 1 cell, all the cell will be affected with can wipe out the entire population
What is Haploid?
Haploid basically means cells consisting of only 1 set of chromosomes usually only in sex cells (1n)
What is Diploid
Diploid basically means cells that consist of 2 sets of a chromosome usually in somatic cells (2n)
What does the Nucleus do?
Control Centre of the cell
1) regulates growth
2) Basic metabolism
3) Reproduction
What does the Human Genome comprise of?
2 sets of 23 Chromosomes which equals to 46 chromosomes in total
44 autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes
What are the 4 reasons we sequence the human genome?
1) store gathered information to further study biological and medicinal study
2) understand the nature of proteins that genes code for
3) identify mutations in the gene which cause genetic disorders
4) new molecular medicine and new approaches
What are Chromosomes
1) Physical carriers of genes
2) located in nucleus
3) Compose of DNA wrapped around proteins called histones
4) when stain shows light and dark band areas
What are sister chromatids
they are the result of a chromosome undergoing DNA replication before cell division and are identical 1 chromatid will be distributed to 1 daughter cell
What are centromeres?
regions with attachment site for microtubules that will move the chromosome during division
Why do we need to wrap DNA around histones?
This is because we can condense the array of DNA sequences and make it more compact which is easier and more manageable to separate the cell during cell division
What is the Structure of Chromosomes?
1) p arm (short arm)
2) q arm (long arm)
3) centromere
4) chromatids
What dye do we use to smear stains on chromosome to reveal the G bands?
Giemsa dye
What does the Dark staining region represent on the chromosome?
late replicating and A-T Rich
What does the light/bright staining region represent on the chromosome?
early replicating and G-C rich
What is Human karyotype?
a systemized arrangement of the chromosomes of a single cell
What are genes?
Gene is a unit of information that code for 1 protein which also codes for 1 genetic trait
What are alleles?
1) each gene is control by a pair of alleles
2) alleles are alternative form of a gene
3) 2 alleles give 1 trait