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Unit 3- Eukaryotic Cell Division Flashcards

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What is chromatin?

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  • coiled DNA wrapped around a histone protein
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How is chromatin different to chromosomes

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Chromatin are bundles of histone proteins wrapped in DNA

Chromosomes are millions of coiled up chromatins

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Where are chromatids joined?

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At the centromere

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Why can we see chromosomes in a light microscope?

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They are short very wide bundles of chromatin that are so thick and coiled we can see them

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What is the product of mitosis?

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2 genetically identical daughter cells

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What is mitosis used for?

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  • Growth
  • replacement
  • repair
  • asexual reproduction in some eukaryotic organisms
  • artificial cloning of plants and animals
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What are the 3 phases of the cell cycle?

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Mitosis
Cytokinesis
Interphase

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What phase do cells spend the majority of their time in?

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Interphase

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Describe interphase:

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Growth 1 phase: cell grows to original size, organelles are replicated and genes are expressed
Synthesis phase: DNA and histone are replicated
Growth 2 phase: spindle and proteins are synthesised

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Summary of mitosis phase:

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Nucleus divides to make 2 nuclei with identical copies of DNA
This is subdivided into PMAT

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Summary of cytokinesis:

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The division of the cytoplasm to form 2daughter cells, with 1 nucleus each

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Prophase: (3)

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  • Chromosomes condense becoming visible
  • centrioles move to opposite poles of cell
  • nucleoli disappears
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Metaphase:

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  • nuclear envelope disappears
  • chromosomes align along equator of cell
  • spindle fibres connect centrioles to chromosomes
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Anaphase: (3)

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  • centromere splits, chromatids separate
  • spindle fibres shorten pulling chromatids towards poles, centromere first
  • some spindle fibres lengthen pushing the poles further apart
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Telophase: (3)

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  • spindle fibres disperse
  • nuclear envelope forms around 2 sets of chromosomes
  • chromatids (chromosomes) uncoil becoming too thin to see
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Cytokinesis, how it differs in plants and animals:

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Animals: ring of actin filament forms around cell equator and tightens squeezing the cell into cleavage furrow which splits into 2 cells
Plants: vesicles move to cell equator, line up and fuse a cell plate down the middle which developers into a cell wall

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What are the products of meiosis?

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4 genetically different haploid daughter cells

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Describe the differences in division 1 of meiosis:

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Prophase: homologous chromosomes join together to for bivalents
Metaphase: bivalents line up on equator of cell
Anaphase: bivalents are separated and homologous chromosomes are pulled to opposite poles of the cell (chromatids don’t separate)
Telophase: chromosomes don’t uncoil

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What are bivalents and where are they found?

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Meiosis division 1:

2 homologous chromosomes joined together

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How does meiosis differ from mitosis?

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In meiosis the chromosome number is halved

In meiosis chromosomes are rearranged to form new combinations of alleles, this os genetic recombination

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Why are does meiosis produce gametes with a haploid number of chromosomes?

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As fertilisation later restores the haploid number to diploid

22
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What are the 2 processes that occurs in meiosis that result in genetic variation?

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Crossing over

Independent assortment

23
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When does crossing over occur?

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Prophase 1 of meiosis, when homologous chromosomes bind to form bivalents

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What is crossing over?

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When homologous chromosomes join together to form bivalents, sections of sister chromatids cross over, resulting in the swapping of alleles

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How come chromosomes stay the same length in crossing over?

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Equal amounts of the chromosomes cross over

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When does independent assortment occurs?

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Metaphase 1 of meiosis

27
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What is independent assortment?

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When the random line up of bivalents along the cell equator gives rise to genetic variation by recombination of alleles

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What are the 2 different types of chromosome mutations?

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Nondisjunction and translocation

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What is non-disjunction?

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This is when chromatids or chromosomes remain stuck together in anaphase 1 or 2, moving together to one pole of the cell

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What is the product of nondisjunction? And what if the gamete fuses with the other gamete?

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Gametes with extra chromosomes or missing chromosomes, if this gamete fertilises the zygote shows polysomy

31
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What is Down syndromes link to non-disjunction?

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  • when a gamete with an extra chromosome fertilises a normal gamete the zygote will show trisomy
  • 3 copies of the smallest chromosome 21
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Symptoms of Down’s syndrome

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  • recognisable facial features
  • short height
  • heart defects
  • poor vision
  • learning difficulties
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What is Turner syndrome caused by?

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When a gamete with a missing X chromosome fertilises a normal gamete
The zygote shows monosomy

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Symptoms of Turner syndrome?

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Female sex organs don’t mature at adolescence

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What is monosomy and trisomy?

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  • having only 1 copy of a chromosome

- having 3 copies of a chromosome

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What is polyploidy?

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When all the chromosomes remain stuck together in meiosis, forming a gamete with 2 copies of every single chromosome which fertilises a normal haploid gamete resulting in a Triploid gamete

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What is translocation mutation?

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When a part of a chromosome is swapped with a part of a completely different non-homologous chromosome.

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When do translocation mutations occur?

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During interphase

39
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What causes translocation?

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Radiation, virus’ or chemicals which spontaneously break the DNA molecules and the DNA ligase joins the DNA back in the wrong place

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Why are translocation mutations most often harmless?

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Exactly the same genes and alleles are still present, just located on different chromosomes

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Cells with translocation mutations have difficulties with meiosis, why is this?

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Homologous chromosomes are no longer homologous (eg, paternal chromosomes may have swapped over sections)
True bivalents cannot form, so the gametes produced from these bivalents are unviable and cause miscarriages

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