Chapter 5: cell in action
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- cellular respiration
- the process of producing ATP in the cell from oxygen and glucose; releases carbon dioxide and water
- fermentation
- the breakdown of sugars to make ATP in the absence of oxygen
- cell cycle
- the life cycle of a cell
- chromosomes
- coiled structure of DNA and protein that forms in the cell nucleus durring cell division
- binary fission
- the simple cell division in whick a cell splits in two; used by bacteria
- homolagous chromosomes
- chromosomes with matching information
- centromere
- the region that holds chromatids together when a chromosome is duplicated
- chromatids
- identical chromosome copies
- mitosis
- nucleur division in eukaryotic cells in which each cell recieves a copy of the original chromosomes
- cytokinesis
- the process in which cytoplasm divides after mitosis