Mitosis And Meiosis Review Flashcards

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Mitosis produces cells that are __________ to the parent cell

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Daughters

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________ monitors a cells progress from phase to phase during the cell

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Cycling

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List two reason for cellular (mitosis) division

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To repair, and to make new cells

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List three things that take place during interphase

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Cell growth, DNA replication, prepare for mitosis

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If the sides of a cell doubles in length, its volume increases by ___ times, and it’s surface area becomes ____ times as large

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8,4

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Plant cell division of cytoplasm at the end of mitosis from a __________ and animal cell division forms a ________

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Cell plate, furrow

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A gene is a segment of DNA that controls the production of _________

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Proteins

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List the three causes of cancer

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Smoking tobacco, radiation exposure, and viral infection

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List three things that occur during prophase

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Chromatids join at the centromere, nuclear membrane disappears, nucleolus disintegrates

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The longest phase of the cell cycle is

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Prophase

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A chromatin is attached to a spindle fiber by the

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Centromere

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Animal cells contain _______ plant cells do not

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Centriole

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The process by which cytoplasm divided to produce identical cells is called

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Cytokinesis

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Furrowing occurs in what phase of mitosis?

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Telophase

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Uncontrolled dividing of the cell is called

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Cancer

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The structure in a cell consisting of coiled DNA wrapped around proteins is a

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Chromosomes

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Mitosis produces what? ( the end result)

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2 identical diploid cells

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Tetrad

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A structure that contains 4 chromatids

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Haploid

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A cell that contains only one set of chromosomes

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Diploid

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A cell that contains both sets of homologous chromosomes

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Tetrads are paired homologous chromosomes that come together during

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Prophase I

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During what phase of meiosis do sister chromatids separate - tetrads separate?

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Anaphase II

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Do tetrads form during mitosis or meiosis?

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Meiosis

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What is crossing over? What division and what phase does it occur?

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Homologous chromosomes exchange portions of their chromatids. Prophase I