Mitosis Vocabulary

Question 1

Section 5.1: Cell Cycle

Cell Cycle

Answer 1

Pattern of grownt, DNA replication, and cell dicision that occurs in a eukaryotic cell

Question 2

Section 5.1: Cell Cycle

Mitosis

Answer 2

Process by which a cell divides its nucleus and contents

Question 3

Section 5.1: Cell Cycle

Cytokinesis

Answer 3

Process by which the cell cytoplasm divided

Question 4

DNA Replication (not from Ch 5)

DNA

Answer 4

Molecule that stroes genetic information in all organisms

Deoxyribonucleic acid

Question 5

DNA Replication (not from Ch 5)

Replication

Answer 5

process by which DNA is copied

Question 6

DNA Replication (not from Ch 5)

DNA polymarse

Answer 6

enzyme that makes bond between nucleotides, froming an identical stem of DNA during replication

Question 7

Section 5.2: Mitosis & Cytokinesis

Chromosomes

Answer 7

long, coninuos thread of DNA that consost of numerous genes and regulatory infromation

Question 8

Section 5.2: Mitosis & Cytokinesis

Histone

Answer 8

proten that organizes chromosoms and around which DNA wraps

Question 9

Section 5.2: Mitosis & Cytokinesis

Chromatin

Answer 9

one half of a dupicated chromosome

Question 10

Section 5.2: Mitosis & Cytokinesis

Centromere

Answer 10

region of condensed chromosome that looks pinched; where spindle fibers attach during meiosis and mitosis

Question 11

Section 5.2: Mitosis & Cytokinesis

Telomere

Answer 11

Repeating nucleotied at the end of DNA molecules that do not foem genes and help prevent the loss of genes

Question 12

Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Growth Factor

Answer 12

broad group of proteins that stimulate cell division

Question 13

Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Apoptosis

Answer 13

programe cell death

Question 14

Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Cancer

Answer 14

common name for a class of disease characterized by uncontrolled cell division

Question 15

Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Benigin

Answer 15

Having no fangerouse effect on health, sepecially referring to an abnormal growth causing harm to the organisms health

Question 16

Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Maligant

Answer 16

To spread by transferring a disease-causingangent from the site of te desease to other pages of the body

Question 17

Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Metastasize

Answer 17

to spread by transferring a deseas-casing angent from the site of the diseas to other pages of the body

Question 18

Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Carcinogen

Answer 18

Substance that produces or promotes the development of cancer

Question 19

Section 5.4: Asexual Reproduction

Asexual Reporduction

Answer 19

process by which offspring are produced from a single parent; does not involve the joining of gametes

Question 20

Section 5.4: Asexual Reproduction

Binary Fission

Answer 20

Asexual reproduction in which a cell divides into two equal parts

Question 21

Section 5.2: Mitosis and Cytokinesis

Chromatid

Answer 21

loos combination of DNA and proteins that is present during interphase