About Cells!

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