The cell cycle (basic)

Question 1

What is the purpose of Mitosis?

Answer 1

Growth of organism (more bone cells, muscle cells, etc)
Maintenance (replacing old, worn out cells and dead cells like blood cells, skin cells etc)
Repair (making more skin cells to cover cut, more bone cells to heal a break, etc.)

Question 2

What are the stages of interphase?

Answer 2

G1: cell grows, organelles double in number, cell does its job
S (DNA synthesis) DNA is copied
G2: more growth

Question 3

What does Mitosis do?

Answer 3

division of the cells DNA (nuclear division)

Question 4

what does cytokinesis do?

Answer 4

cell divides into 2 cells (cyto = cell. cytoplasm separates with the bubble thing)

Question 5

What are the steps of mitosis?

Answer 5

Prophase
Metaphase
Anaphase
Telophase

Question 6

what is the acronym for the cell cycle?

Answer 6

I
P
M
A
T
C

Question 7

What happens before Mitosis?

Answer 7

Interphase. the cell grows more chromosomes, and doubles its number of chromosomes before mitosis (in humans it goes from 46 to 96 when cells divide)