Bio Chapter 10 Test
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- Cell Division
- the process by which a cell divides into two new daughter cells
- Mitosis
- the first stage, division of the cells nucleus
- Cytokinesis
- the second stage, division of the cytoplasm
- Chromatids
- the two identical parts of a chromosome
- Centromeres
- what the chromatids are attached to
- Interphase
- the in-between period
- Cell Cycle
- the series of events that cells go through as they grow and divide
- Prophase
- the first and longest stage of mitosis
- Centrioles
- two tiny structures located in the cytoplasm near the nuclear envelope, separate to take up postitions on the opposite sides of the nucleus
- Spindle
- a fanlike microtubule structure that helps separtate the chromosomes
- Metaphase
- second phase of mitosis
- Anaphase
- third stage of mitosis
- Telophase
- fourth and final stage of mitosis
- Cyclin
- a protein that regulates the timing of the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells
- Cancer
- a disorder in which some of the body's own cells lose the ability to control growth