Mitosis/Meiosis/ DNA Test Review

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Formation of two new nuclei with identical chromosomes What is mitosis? Return

Any sex cell What is a gamete? Return

Nuclear division that forms sex cells What is meiosis? Return

Cell that forms in fertilization What is a zygote? Return

What is DNA? Controls cell activity with coded instructions Return

Process of DNA coping itself What is replication? Return

Segment of DNA controlling production of one protein What is a gene? Return

Form of ribonucleic acid that attaches to ribosomes in cytoplasm What is mRNA? Return

DAILY DOUBLE DAILY DOUBLE

Any permanent change in genetic material of a cell What is a mutation? Return

Most of the life of any cell is spent in a period of cell growth and development called _____. What is interphase? Return

Each human skin cell has ____ pairs of chromosomes. What is 23? Return

In sexual reproduction, a new organism is produced when ____. What is sex cells from two parents combine? Return

Yeast reproduce by ______. What is budding? Return

What is regeneration? In ____, a new organism grows from just a part of the parent organism. Return

Human gametes have _____ individual chromosomes. What is 23? Return

The number of chromosomes in a gamete of an organism is its ______ number. What is haploid? Return

Meiosis consists of ___ division(s) of the nucleus. What is two? Return

In DNA, adenine always pairs with ______. What is thymine? Return

At the end of meiosis, ___ cells are produced. What is four? Return

Proteins are made of units of ___ linked together in a specific order. What are amino acids? Return

The code for making proteins is carried to the ribosomes by ___. What is RNA? Return

____ occurs when an extra chromosome is present in a human being. What is Down Syndrome? Return

Process used to make sex cells What is meiosis? Return

Process used to make body cells What is mitosis? Return

Has four steps in cell division What is mitosis? Return

FINAL JEOPARDY ? Mitosis, Meiosis, and DNA

Occurs in both plants and animals What are both meiosis and mitosis? Return

Has eight steps in cell division. What is meiosis? Return

Produces new cells with each having half as many chromosomes as the original cell. What is meiosis? Return

Spindle fibers form in this phase. What prophase? Return

The chromosomes move apart to opposite ends of the cell in this phase. What is anaphase? Return

The nuclear membrane reforms and the cytoplasm divides in this phase of mitosis. What is telophase? Return

The double-stranded chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell and attach to the spindle fibers in this phase of mitosis. What is metaphase? Return

The chromosomes duplicate themselves and become visible in this phase. What is interphase? Return

Describe cancer and why it happens. Return What is mitosis happening out of control, producing too many cells that don’t function properly, and forming a tumor?