Cell Division Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Cancer causing agents
  2. 4. A threadlike, gene-carrying structure found in the nucleus
  3. 7. undifferentiated cells
  4. 8. The cells that are produced as a result of mitosis
  5. 12. uncontrolled cell division
  6. 13. mass of rapidly dividing cells that can damage surrounding tissue
  7. 15. process in which cells become specialized in structure and function
  8. 18. first and longest phase of mitosis, during which the chromosomes become visible
Down
  1. 1. original cell before cell division
  2. 3. division of the cytoplasm
  3. 5. series of events that cells go through as they grow and divide
  4. 6. the final phase of cell division, chromosomes move to opposite ends of the cell and two nuclei are formed.
  5. 9. the third phase of mitosis, during which the chromosome pairs separate and move toward opposite poles
  6. 10. sequence of DNA that codes for a protein and thus determines a trait
  7. 11. Pair of chromosomes that are the same size, same appearance and same genes.
  8. 14. division of the nucleus
  9. 16. second phase of mitosis, during which the chromosomes line up across the center of the cell
  10. 17. period of the cell cycle between cell divisions