Word Roots Ch. 12 Flashcards
1
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Ana
A
Up, throughout, again
2
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Bi
A
Two
3
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Centro
A
The center
4
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Mere
A
A part
5
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Chroma
A
Colored
6
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Cyclo
A
A circle
7
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Cyto
A
Cell
8
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Kinet
A
Move
9
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Gamet
A
A wife or husband
10
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Gen
A
Produce
11
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Inter
A
Between
12
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Mal
A
Bad or evil
13
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Meio
A
Less
14
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Meta
A
Between
15
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Mito
A
A thread
16
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Pro
A
Before
17
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Soma
A
Body
18
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Telos
A
An end
19
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Trans
A
Across
20
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Form
A
Shape
21
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Anaphase
A
The mitotic stage in which the chromatids of each chromosome have separated and the daughter chromosomes are moving to the poles of the cell.
22
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Binary fission *
A
A type of cell division in a which a cell divides in half
23
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Centromere *
A
The narrow “waist” of a condensed chromosome
24
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Chromatin
A
DNA and the various associated proteins that forms eukaryotic chromosomes
25
Cyclin
A regulatory protein whose concentration fluctuates cyclically
26
Cytokinesis*
Division of the cytoplasm
27
Gamete*
A haploid egg or sperm cell
28
Genome *
A cell's endowment of DNA
29
Interphase
Time when a cell metabolizes and performs its various functions
30
Malignant tumor
A cancerous tumor that is invasive enough to impair functions of one or more organs
31
Meiosis
A variation of cell division which yields daughter cells with half as many chromosomes as the parent cell
32
Metaphase
The mitotic stage in which the chromosomes are aligned in the middle of the cell, at the metaphase plate
33
Mitosis *
The division of the nucleus
34
Prophase ^
The first mitotic stage in which the chromatin is condensing
35
Centrosome
A nonmembranous organelle that functions throughout the cell cycle to organize the cell's microtubules
36
Telophase
The final stage of mitosis in which daughter nuclei are forming and cytokinesis has typically begun
37
Transformation *
The process that converts a normal cell into a cancer cell
