Key Words For Cell Devision

Question 1

Alleles

Answer 1

Each or two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise from mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome

Question 2

Genes

Answer 2

Found in DNA, a unit of heredity

Question 3

Mitosis

Answer 3

A type of cell division, that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus. Typical of ordinary tissue growth

Question 4

Stem cells

Answer 4

Unspecialised cells

Question 5

Therapeutic

Answer 5

Relating to the healing of a disease

Question 6

Cloning

Answer 6

The process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria , insects or plants reproduce asexually

Question 7

Differentiation

Answer 7

The process by which a cell becomes specialised in order to perform a specific function, as in the case of liger cell, a blood cells or a neuron (nerve cell).

Question 8

DNA

Answer 8

Double helix , contain instructions an organism needs to develop, live and reproduce

Question 9

Chromosomes

Answer 9

Is a long, stringy aggregate of genes. That carries heredity information.

Question 10

Synthesis

Answer 10

The production of an organic compound in a living thing.