Reproduction and Growth 6 th Grade

Instructions You have 30 seconds on a piece of paper to answer the following questions. When you hear this sound put down your pencil. Whoever has the most correct answers at the end will win.

Question 1: The stages all organisms go through.

Times Up Answer: life cycle

Question 2: The stage of mitosis where a cell spends most of its cycle.

Times Up Answer: interphase

Question 3: The division of a nucleus into two, while a cell is dividing into two identical cells.

Times Up Answer: mitosis

Question 4: When new organisms are produced from one parent.

Times Up Answer: asexual reproduction

Question 5: When new organisms are produced from two parents.

Times Up Answer: reproduction

Question 6: The male sex cell.

Times Up Answer: sperm

Question 7: The female sex cell.

Times Up Answer: egg

Question 8: The process in which the nucleus of a sex cell divides twice.

Times Up Answer: meiosis

Question 9: Time of growth and time of dividing a cell.

Times Up Answer: cell cycle

Question 10: The process of an egg and a sperm joining.

Times Up Answer: fertilization

Question 11: What’s the name for a fertilized egg cell

Times Up Answer: zygote

Question 12: When does the process of mitosis end?

Times Up Answer: two new cells are formed

Question 13: How many chromosomes does a human sperm or egg contain?

Times Up Answer: 23 chromosomes

Question 14: How many chromosomes does a human body cell contain?

Times Up Answer: 46 chromosomes

Question 15: In mitosis, how is the reproduced cell like the original cell?

Times Up Answer: they are the same

Question 16: True or False? Cell division is a continuous process.

Times Up Answer: True

Question 17: The German scientist use what to help him observe the different phases of mitosis.

Times Up Answer: dye in an onion

Question 18: Walther Fleming determined the phases of mitosis from an onion and placed them in ___________.

Times Up Answer: sequence or order

Question 19: The phase of mitosis that the chromosomes make copies of themselves.

Times Up Answer: interphase

Question 20: The phase of mitosis that the membrane around the nucleus disappear.

Times Up Answer: prophase

Question 21: The phase of mitosis that the chromosomes split apart and travel to opposite sides.

Times Up Answer: anaphase

Question 23: The phase of mitosis that the cytoplasm divides and two new cells are formed.

Times Up Answer: telophase

Question 24: Cells are either in the growth or dividing stage of the cell cycle. Which stage is a new cell in?

Times Up Answer: growth

Question 25: In the life cycle of humans, what follows the childhood stage?

Times Up Answer: adolescence

Question 26: When animals change from one form to a completely different form during their life cycle, it is called ________.

Times Up Answer: metamorphosis

Question 27: Any group of diseases in which cells divide faster and more often than a normal cell is called ________.

Times Up Answer: cancer

Question 28: In asexual reproduction how is the off-spring compared to the parent?

Times Up Answer: they are exactly alike

Question 29: The process that a living thing uses to produce more of its own kind.

Times Up Answer: reproduction

Question 30: Other than Rudolph, name one of Santa’s reindeers.

Times Up Answer: Donder, Cupid, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Blitzen, Vixen

The End Thanks for playing