Mitosis Produces Genetically Identical Cells

Question 1

What is MiTosis?

Answer 1

When a cell reproduces itself by splitting to form two cells with identical sets of chromosomes

Question 2

What happens when a diploid cell divides by miTosis?

Answer 2

You get 2 cells that are both diploid

Question 3

What is the DNA like in a cell that’s not dividing?

Answer 3

It is all spread out in long strings

Question 4

What happens if a cell gets a signal to divide?

Answer 4

It needs to duplicate its DNA - so there’s one copy for each cell

Question 5

What kind of chromosomes do DNA form?

Answer 5

X-shaped - each ‘arm’ of the chromosomes is an exact duplicate of the other

Question 6

What do the chromosomes do and what happens to them?

Answer 6

They line up at the centre of the cell and cell fibres pull them apart

Question 7

What do the two arms of each chromosome do?

Answer 7

They go to opposite ends of the cell

Question 8

What forms around each set of chromosomes? What do these become?

Answer 8

Membranes - they become the nuclei of the two new cells

Question 9

What does the cytoplasm do?

Answer 9

Divide

Question 10

What do you now have?

Answer 10

Two new cells containing exactly the same DNA