Reproduction vocabulary

2. The cells chromatin tightens into chromosomes
4. - Family of proteins that controls the progession of a cell by activating CDK enzymes
7. The structures that contain the genetic material that is passed from generation to generation of cells
11. Death of cells
13. - Cells reproduce by a cycle of growing and dividing
14. - The structure that ensures a complete copy of the replicated DNA will become apart of the daughter cells
16. - Uncontrolled growth and division of cells
17. - Structures that contain identical copies of DNA
18. The method by which a cells cytoplasm divides creating a new cell

1. - Sister chromatids are pulled by motor proteins along the spindle apparatus toward the center of the cell lining up in the middle
3. - The stage during which cells grow,carries out cellular functions, replicate the DNA.
5. - Important for moving and organizing chromosomes before cell division
6. - Microtubules of the spindle apparatus begin to shorten. The shortening pulls at the centromere of each sister chromatids splitting them into 2 identical chromosomes
8. - The relaxed form of DNA in the cells nucleus
9. - Substance capable of causing cancer
10. - Cell which all other cells with specialized functions are generated
12. - The chromosomes are at the poles of the cell and begin to relax
15. - Is the stage which the cells nucleus and nuclear material divide. Has 4 substages