Chapter 9
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 reproduction | process by which parents produce offspring |
| mitosis | cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes |
| Somatic cells deal with which type of nuclear division mechanism? | mitosis |
| Germ cells deal with which type of nuclear division mechanism? | meiosis |
| Which nuclear divison mechanism deals with repairing tissue? | mitosis |
| Which division mechanism deals with gamete formation? | meiosis |
| Archaebacteria and Eubacteria reproduce asexually by what mechanism? | prokaryotic fission |
| sister chromatids | chromosome and its duplicated copy |
| DNA is wrapped twice around what chromosomal protein? | histone |
| Sister chromotids are joined by what? | centromere |
| In human somatic cells, how many chromosomes are there? | 46 |
| What is a nucleosome? | DNA and histone |
| chromosme number | sum total of chromosomes in cell of given type |
| The product of mitosis are haploid or diploid cells? | diploid |
| The product of meiosis are haploid or diploid cells? | haploid |
| If a parent cell was diploid and under went mitosis, what would the daughter cell be? | diploid |
| What are the steps of mitosis, in order? | prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telephase |
| In what stage does the DNA replicate in mitosis? | interphase |
| In mitosis, what are the stages of interphase in order? | G1, S, G2 |
| In mitosis, what happens in G1? | cell growth |
| What are the stages of a cell cycle? | interphase, mitosis, cytoplasmic division |
| In what stage of mitosis are the chromosomes most condensed? | metaphase |
| What separates sister chromatids in mitosis? | microtubules |
| Does the nuclear envelope break down at the beginning or end of prophase? | end |
| In what stage of mitosis are the chromosomes lined up? | metaphase |
| In what stage of mitosis are the chromosomes separated? | anaphase |
| In what stage of mitosis are the chromosomes decondensed? | telephase |
| In what stage of mitosis is a new membrane made between the two newly forming cells? | telephase |
| cytokinesis | cytoplasmic division |
| cell plate formation | mechanism of cytoplasmic division in plant cells |
| cell plate | beginnings of a new plant cell wall that forms during cell division and divides a cell into two |
| In plants, what forms that seperates the two newly forming cells? | cell plate |
| In animals, what forms that seperates the two newly forming cells? | cleavage furrow |
| cleavage furrow | indentation in plasma membrane |
| Rings of what form around the old spindle equator, creating a cleavage furrow? | microfilaments |
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