About Cells!

2. phase of mitosis in which the chromosomes separate and move to opposite ends of the cell.
5. mass of rapidly dividing cells that can damage surrounding tissue
7. disorder in which some of the body's own cells lose the ability to control growth.
10. substance found in eukaryotic chromosomes that consists DNA.
12. threadlike structure within nucleus that contains genetic information that is passed from generation to next.
13. Reproduction, production of genetically identical offspring from a single parent.
14. structure in an animal cell that helps to organize cell division.
15. phase of mitosis in which the chromosomes line up across the center of the cell.

1. Cycle, series of events in which a cell grows prepares for division and divides into two daughter cells.
3. first and longest phase of mitosis.
4. period of the cell cycle between cell divisions.
6. division of the cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells.
8. one of two identical "sister" parts of a duplicated chromosome.
9. part of eukaryotic cell division during which the cell nucleus divides.
11. region of chromosomes where the two sister chromatids attach.