Unit 3 List 2 Cell Cycle

Question 1

Anaphase

Answer 1

the stage of the cell cycle in which duplicated chromosomes separate and move towards opposite poles of the cell.

Question 2

Cancer

Answer 2

Mutations in genes can cause cancer by accelerating cell division rates or inhibiting normal controls on the system, such as cell cycle arrest or programmed cell death.

Question 3

Cancer checkpoint

Answer 3

mechanisms that regulate progression through the cell cycle insuring that each step takes place only once and in the right sequence

Question 4

Cell Cycle

Answer 4

the name we give the process through which cells replicate and make two new cells

Question 5

Cell Differentiation

Answer 5

The process during which young, immature (unspecialized) cells take on individual characteristics and reach their mature (specialized) form and function.

Question 6

Centrioles

Answer 6

paired barrel-shaped organelles located in the cytoplasm of animal cells near the nuclear envelope.

Question 7

Centromere

Answer 7

the region of a chromosome to which the microtubules of the spindle attach, via the kinetochore, during cell division.

Question 8

Chromatid

Answer 8

one of the two identical halves of a chromosome that has been replicated in preparation for cell division

Question 9

Chromatin

Answer 9

A highly organized condensed structure made up of DNA, RNA, and proteins that forms the chromosomes in the nucleus of a cell.

Question 10

Chromosomes

Answer 10

A structure found inside the nucleus of a ce

Question 11

Cytokinesis

Answer 11

divides the cytoplasm of a parent cell into two daughter cells.