Biology Chapter 5 Vocabulary
Across
- 1. Substances that are known to produce or promote the development of cancer cells
- 3. The regular pattern of growth, DNA duplication, and cell division that occurs in eukaryotic cells
- 4. Not harmful (Cancer cells stay together instead of breaking apart and spreading)
- 6. One long, continuous thread of DNA that consists of numerous genes along with regulatory information
- 9. When cancer cells spread to other sites in the body by metastasis
- 11. Groups of cells that work together to perform a similar function
- 13. A unique type of body cell that can divide and renew themselves for long periods of time and remain undifferentiated in form, and differentiate into a variety of specialized cell types
- 14. The ends of DNA molecules that are made of repeating nucleotides that do not form genes
- 15. The first phase of mitosis when chromosomes become visible as paired chromatids and the nuclear envelope disappears
- 16. Some of the cancer cells break away from the mass of cancer cells
- 19. A protein that provides structural support to a chromosome
- 20. The final phase of cell division in which the chromatids or chromosomes move to opposite ends of the cell and two nuclei are formed
- 22. Broad groups of proteins that stimulate cell division
- 24. A region of the condensed chromosome that looks pinched
- 26. One half of a duplicated chromosome
Down
- 2. The process by which a cell becomes specialized for a specific structure or function during multicellular development
- 5. Programmed cell death
- 7. Organs that carry out similar functions
- 8. The third stage of mitosis in which all genetic material is condensed into chromosomes
- 10. The complex of protein and DNA that makes up the chromosome
- 12. The production of offspring from a single parent and does not involve the joining of gametes
- 17. The fourth phase of mitosis that separates the duplicated genetic material carried in the nucleus of a parent cell into two identical daughter cells
- 18. The asexual reproduction of a single-celled organism by division into two roughly equal parts
- 21. The process that divides the cell cytoplasm
- 23. The division of the cell nucleus and its contents
- 24. Uncontrolled cell division
- 25. Group of tissues that work together to perform a specific function