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Word Roots Ch. 12 Flashcards

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Ana

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Up, throughout, again

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Bi

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Two

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Centro

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The center

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Mere

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A part

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Chroma

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Colored

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Cyclo

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A circle

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Cyto

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Cell

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Kinet

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Move

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Gamet

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A wife or husband

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Gen

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Produce

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Inter

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Between

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Mal

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Bad or evil

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Meio

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Less

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Meta

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Between

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Mito

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A thread

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Pro

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Before

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Soma

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Body

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Telos

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An end

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Trans

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Across

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Form

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Shape

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Anaphase

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The mitotic stage in which the chromatids of each chromosome have separated and the daughter chromosomes are moving to the poles of the cell.

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Binary fission *

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A type of cell division in a which a cell divides in half

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Centromere *

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The narrow “waist” of a condensed chromosome

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Chromatin

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DNA and the various associated proteins that forms eukaryotic chromosomes

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Cyclin

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A regulatory protein whose concentration fluctuates cyclically

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Cytokinesis*

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Division of the cytoplasm

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Gamete*

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A haploid egg or sperm cell

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Genome *

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A cell’s endowment of DNA

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Interphase

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Time when a cell metabolizes and performs its various functions

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Malignant tumor

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A cancerous tumor that is invasive enough to impair functions of one or more organs

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Meiosis

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A variation of cell division which yields daughter cells with half as many chromosomes as the parent cell

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Metaphase

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The mitotic stage in which the chromosomes are aligned in the middle of the cell, at the metaphase plate

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Mitosis *

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The division of the nucleus

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Prophase ^

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The first mitotic stage in which the chromatin is condensing

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Centrosome

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A nonmembranous organelle that functions throughout the cell cycle to organize the cell’s microtubules

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Telophase

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The final stage of mitosis in which daughter nuclei are forming and cytokinesis has typically begun

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Transformation *

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The process that converts a normal cell into a cancer cell

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