Across
- 3. Series of events in which a cell grows, prepares for division, and divides to form two daughter cells
- 6. Disorder in which some of the body's cells lose the ability to control growth
- 8. Part of eukaryotic cell division during which the cell nucleus divides
- 9. The production and development of the organs of an animal or plant.
- 12. Substance found in eukaryotic chromosomes that consists of DNA tightly coiled around histones
- 14. (of a cancer) spread to other sites in the body by metastasis.
- 15. Process in which a cell divides into two new daughter cells
- 16. Sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait; factor that is passed from parent to offspring
- 17. Repetitive DNA at the end of a eukaryotic chromosome
Down
- 1. One of two identical "sister" parts of a duplicated chromosome
- 2. Region of a chromosome where the two sister chromatids attach
- 4. Structure in an animal cell that helps to organize cell division
- 5. Stage of early development in mammals that consists of a hollow ball of cells
- 7. An embryo at the stage following the blastula, when it is a hollow cup-shaped structure having three layers of cells.
- 10. Threadlike structure within the nucleus that contains genetic information that is passed on from one generation to the next
- 11. Process in which cells become specialized in structure and function
- 13. Unspecialized cell that can give rise to one or more types of specialized cells