Vocabulary

4. A family of basic proteins that associate with DNA in the nucleus and help condense it into chromatin.
5. Preceded by metaphase and followed by telophase.
10. The final stage of meiosis or mitosis.
12. A form of reproduction that does not involve meiosis.
14. occurs after the segregation of the duplicated genome 2
15. arge family of diseases that involve abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
18. The region of the chromosome to which the spindle fiber is attached during cell division.
20. The end of a chromosome.
21. A tumor that may invade its surrounding tissue or spread around the body.

1. The process in cell division by which the nucleus divides.
2. A type of asexual reproduction common among prokaryotes.
3. Either of the two strands formed when a chromosome duplicates itself as part of the early stages of cell division.
6. A substance or agent that can cause cells to become cancerous by altering their genetic structure so that they multiply continuously and become malignant.
7. The process where crowded cells stop dividing.
8. The series of biochemical and structural events involving the growth, replication, and division of a eukaryotic cell.
9. A structure in all living cells that consists of a single molecule of DNA bonded to various proteins and that carries the genes determining heredity.
11. The spread from one part of the body to another.
13. A process of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms.
16. The stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle.
17. A tumor that does not invade its surrounding tissue or spread around the body.
18. The substance distributed in the nucleus of a cell that condenses to form chromosomes during cell division.
19. The initial stage of mitosis.