ABOUT CELLS!

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Across
  1. 3. mass of rapidly dividing cells that can damage surrounding tissue.
  2. 6. period of the cell cycle between cell divisions.
  3. 7. Cycle, series of events in which a cell grows prepares for division and divides into two daughter cells.
  4. 9. substance found in eukaryotic chromosomes that consists DNA.
  5. 10. phase of mitosis in which the chromosomes line up across the center of the cell.
  6. 11. structure in an animal cell that helps to organize cell division.
  7. 12. Reproduction, production of genetically identical offspring from a single parent.
  8. 13. region of chromosomes where the two sister chromatids attach.
Down
  1. 1. phase of mitosis in which the chromosomes separate and move to opposite ends of the cell.
  2. 2. division of the cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells.
  3. 4. part of eukaryotic cell division during which the cell nucleus divides.
  4. 5. one of two identical "sister" parts of a duplicated chromosome.
  5. 7. threadlike structure within nucleus that contains genetic information that is passed from generation to next.
  6. 8. first and longest phase of mitosis.
  7. 11. disorder in which some of the body's own cells lose the ability to control growth.