Science Quiz 2: Types of Cell Division

12. How does mitosis in animal cells differ from mitosis in higher plant cells?

* Plant cells divide by means of a cell plate. * Animal cells undergo furrowing.

3. Which of the following cells would not divide using mitosis?

* flowering plant cell

13. The two basic functions of meiosis are to ?.

* maintain chromosome number through generations * cause genetic variations by recombination

9. The kind of cell division associated with an increase in size and weight of an organism is ?.

mitosis

15. Which of the following methods of asexual reproduction is usually associated with the production of spores?

multiple fission

5. Which of the following expressions is not a function of mitosis?

production of gametes

4. The nuclear envelope disintegrates during ?.

prophase

1. Damaged cells of an organism are usually ? by mitosis.

replaced

8. Which of the following would be produced by meiosis?

sperm cell

11. The spindle apparatus disintegrates during ?.

telophase

6. The cell plate is formed during ?.

telophase

14. A protozoan that divides to form two daughter cells just like itself would be undergoing ?.

binary fission

10. Chromosomes are attached to the spindle fibers during ?.

metaphase

2. You are looking through a microscope at onion cells and you see a cell with the sister chromatids lined up across the middle of the cell. What phase of mitosis are you observing?

metaphase

7. Meiosis produces ? daughter cells.

4

17. The spindle apparatus cells centers on a cell structure called the ?.

centriole

16. Starfish, flatworms, and sponges may be cut into pieces, and the individual parts will grow new individual animals by means of the process of ?.

fragmentation