Across
- 2. Reproduction, production of genetically identical offspring from a single parent.
- 3. division of the cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells.
- 4. substance found in eukaryotic chromosomes that consists DNA.
- 5. mass of rapidly dividing cells that can damage surrounding tissue
- 9. structure in an animal cell that helps to organize cell division.
- 10. period of the cell cycle between cell divisions.
- 11. part of eukaryotic cell division during which the cell nucleus divides.
- 12. phase of mitosis in which the chromosomes separate and move to opposite ends of the cell.
- 13. phase of mitosis in which the chromosomes line up across the center of the cell.
Down
- 1. disorder in which some of the body's own cells lose the ability to control growth.
- 4. threadlike structure within nucleus that contains genetic information that is passed from generation to next.
- 6. one of two identical "sister" parts of a duplicated chromosome.
- 7. region of chromosomes where the two sister chromatids attach.
- 8. first and longest phase of mitosis.
- 9. Cycle, series of events in which a cell grows prepares for division and divides into two daughter cells.