Cell Division

2. To spread by transferring a disease causing agent from the site of the disease to other parts of the body.
4. Substance that produces or promotes the development of cancer.
7. One half of a duplicated chromosome.
9. Cancerous tumor in which cells break away and spread to other parts of the body.
13. Repeating nucleotide at the ends of DNA molecules that do not form genes and help prevent the loss of genes.
15. Common name for a class of disease characterized by uncontrolled cell division.
16. Final phase of mitosis.
18. First phase of mitosis.
19. Protein that organizes chromosomes and around which DNA wraps.

1. Division of the cytoplasm.
3. Third phase of mitosis where sister chromosomes are separated.
4. Loose combination of DNA and proteins that is present during interphase.
5. Abnormal growth of cells that is not cancerous.
6. Long, continuous thread of DNA that consists of numerous genes and regulatory information.
8. Second phase of mitosis when chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell.
10. Region of condensed chromosome that looks pinched.
11. Pattern of growth, DNA replication and cell division in eukaryotic cells.
12. Broad group of proteins that stimulate cell division.
14. Division of the nucleus.
17. Programmed cell death.