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Module 9 - Cellular Reproduction and Sexual Reproduction Flashcards

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Why do cells stay small?

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Ratio of surface area to volume
transport of substances
cellular communication

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What is chromatin?

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The relaxed form of DNA

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What are chromosomes?

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Condensed structures that contain the DNA and are visible during mitosis

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What is a nucleosome?

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A unit inside a chromosome, consisting of DNA wrapped around histone proteins.

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What is the cell cycle?

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The cycle by which cells reproduce.

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What is interphase?

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The stage during which the cell grows, develops into a mature functioning cell, duplicates the DNA in its nucleus and prepares for division.

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What phase does a cell spend most of its life in?

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Interphase

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What are the substages of interphase?

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Gap 1, Synthesis, and Gap 2

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What happens during gap 1?

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The phase right after splitting. A cell is growing, carrying out normal functions, and preparing to replicate DNA.

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What happens during synthesis?

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The cell copies its DNA in preparation for cell division

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What happens during gap 2?

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The cell prepares for division, a protein that makes microtubules is synthesized, the cell takes inventory

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What is mitosis?

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The stage of the cell cycle during which the cells nucleus and nuclear materiial divide.

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What are the stages of mitosis?

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Prophase
metaphase
anaphase
telophase

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14
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What are sister chromatids?

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Structures that contain identical copies of DNA, the halves of a chromosome.

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What is a centromere?

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The structure at the center of the chromosome where the sister chromatids are attached.

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What happens during prophase?

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Nuclear membrane disintegrates
Nucleolus disappears
Chromosomes condense
Spindle apparatus begins to form between the poles

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What is the spindle apparatus?

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A structure including spindle fibers, centrioles, and aster fibers. Moves chromosomes in cell division.

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What happens during metaphase?

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Chromosomes attach to spindle apparatus and align along equator of cell.

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What happens during anaphase?

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Chromatids are pulled apart, resulting in the separation of replicated DNA. Microtubules of spindle apparatus shorten.

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What happens during telophase?

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Chromosomes arrive at the poles of the cell and begin to relax and decondense. Two new nuclei are formed and nucleoli reappear.

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What is cytokinesis?

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The final stage of the cell cycle, where a cell’s cytoplasm divides and the cells completely separate.

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What are cyclins?

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Proteins that bind to enzymes in interphase and mitosis to initiate the various activities that take place in the cell cycle.

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What are the enzymes that cyclins bind to called?

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Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs)

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What are quality control checkpoints?

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They are built-in checkpoints that monitor the cycle and can stop it if something goes wrong.

25
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What is checked at the quality control checkpoints?

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Is the DNA damaged?
Is the DNA replicating correctly?
Has all DNA been replicated?
Are chromosomes properly attached to spindles?

26
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What is apoptosis?

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Programmed cell death when a cell can’t pass the checkpoints.

27
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What is cancer?

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The uncontrolled growth and division of cells; a failure in the regulation of the cell cycle.

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What are carcinogens?

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Substances and agents that are known to cause cancer

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What are genes?

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Regions of DNA that code for the formation of proteins.

30
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What are homologous chromosomes?

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A chromosomes that make up a pair; one from each parent.

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What are gametes?

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Sex cells that have half the number of chromosomes. (human gametes have 23)

32
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What is fertilization?

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The process by which one gamete combines with another gamete

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