Cell Division Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. a process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells that occurs when a parent cell divides to produce two identical daughter cells.
  2. 4. Division, the division of a cell into two daughter cells with the same genetic material.
  3. 7. a minute cylindrical organelle near the nucleus in animal cells, occurring in pairs and involved in the development of spindle fibers in cell division.
  4. 8. a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.
  5. 9. a complex of DNA and proteins that forms chromosomes within the nucleus of eukaryotic cells
  6. 11. the stage of meiotic or mitotic cell division in which the chromosomes move away from one another to opposite poles of the spindle.
  7. 13. the second stage of cell division, between prophase and anaphase, during which the chromosomes become attached to the spindle fibers.
  8. 16. the first stage of cell division, before metaphase, during which the chromosomes become visible as paired chromatids and the nuclear envelope disappears.
  9. 17. the splitting of a unicellular organism into two or more separate daughter cells
  10. 19. the presence of two complete sets of chromosomes in an organism's cells, with each parent contributing a chromosome to each pair.
Down
  1. 1. relating to the act or process of mitosis
  2. 3. Cell, Either of the two cells formed when a cell undergoes cell division by mitosis.
  3. 4. the cytoplasmic division of a cell at the end of mitosis or meiosis, bringing about the separation into two daughter cells.
  4. 5. a microscopic tubular structure present in numbers in the cytoplasm of cells, sometimes aggregating to form more complex structures
  5. 6. the region of a chromosome to which the microtubules of the spindle attach, via the kinetochore, during cell division
  6. 10. the final phase of cell division, between anaphase and interphase, in which the chromatids or chromosomes move to opposite ends of the cell and two nuclei are formed.
  7. 12. each of the two threadlike strands into which a chromosome divides longitudinally during cell division. Each contains a double helix of DNA.
  8. 14. an organelle near the nucleus of a cell which contains the centrioles (in animal cells) and from which the spindle fibers develop in cell division.
  9. 15. the structure that pulls the chromatids to opposite ends of the cell during the cell division processes of mitosis and meiosis
  10. 18. describes a cell that contains a single set of chromosomes