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When DNA and its attached proteins is spread out in the nucleus of non-dividing cells it is called ____. When it is scrunched up in dividing cells it is called ____.

-Chromatin -Chromosomes

When animal cells undergo cytokinesis they use a C __ __ __ __ __ __ __ F __ __ __ __ __ to split their cytoplasm, but plant cells use a C __ __ __ P __ __ __ __ because their cell wall keeps them from pinching.

-Cleavage Furrow -Cell Plate

Homologous Chromosomes

Same size, shape, and carry genes for the same traits but are NOT identical

Chromosomes are made of

two Chromatid arms joined in the middle by a Centromere

Interphase

Non-dividing phase of the cell cycle

Family of proteins that regulate the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells

Cyclins

DNA is copied during

Synthesis

Anaphase

The chromatid arms seperate and move to opposite ends of the cell.

When nerve cells are in G0 ____.

They stop dividing

Metaphase

Chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell

Centrioles are made up of ____.

Microtubules

Centrosome

Region near the nucleus where the centrioles are found that helps organize the spindle fibers during cell division

Meiosis

A type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of a body cell

Bacteria divide by a process called ____.

Binary Fission

The disease in which the one of the body's own cells lose the ability to control cell division

Cancer

The repeating steps a cell goes through during its lifetime are called the C __ __ __ C __ __ __ __.

Cell Cycle

Mitosis

Cell division that results in two identical daughter cells

Prophase

Chromatin condenses into Chromosomes, the Centrioles and Spindle Fibers pull the Chromosomes and the Nuclear Membrane and Nucleolus disappear.

The spread of cancer cells to a new location in the body is called ____.

Metastasis

Cell division in eukaryotes consists of two parts:

Mitosis (Divides the Chromosomes) and Cytokinesis (Divides the Cytoplasm)

Telophase is also called ____.

Reverse Prophase


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