Unit 5 vocab
Across
- 3. form of reproduction that requires two parents and results in offspring that are genetically unique when compared to the parents and each other
- 4. surrounds the nucleus, regulates movement into and out of the nucleus
- 9. disease of cell division, body loses ability to regulate cell growth and division
- 11. regulate the cell cycle externally, speed up or slow down the cell cycle
- 14. forms during cytokinesis of plant cells separating daughter cells
- 16. prevent cell division when functioning normally, when mutated allow cells to divide out of control
- 17. division of the rest of the cell
- 18. genes that keep the cell division at the normal rate
- 21. division of the nucleus
- 22. fibers attached to the centromeres, shorten to pull sister chromatids apart
- 24. holds sister chromatids together until they are separated in anaphase
- 25. regulate the cell cycle internally, prevent the cell from continuing through the cell cycle until it is ready
Down
- 1. produce spindle fibers in animal cells
- 2. bundles of genetic information, contain DNA and proteins
- 3. two identical chromosomes, produced during the S phase of interphase, held together by a centromere
- 5. part of the cell cycle where the nucleus and the rest of the cell divides
- 6. ability of cancer cells to move to other parts of the body
- 7. complete life cycle of a cell
- 8. form of asexual reproduction used by prokaryotic cells to divide
- 10. identical cells produced at the end of cell division
- 12. programmed cell death
- 13. mutated version of the gene, causes cells to divide out of control
- 15. relaxed form of DNA, present when the cell is in interphase
- 19. mass of cells
- 20. form of reproduction that only requires one parent and results in offspring genetically identical to the parent and each other
- 23. process that splits one cell into two