Across
- 8. involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism
- 9. A picture of all the chromosomes in a cell arranged in pairs
- 11. any cell of a living organism other than the reproductive cells.
- 12. second phase of mitosis
- 13. specialized cell involved in sexual reproduction
- 14. the final phase of cell division
- 17. The regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo
- 18. containing two complete sets of chromosomes, one from each parent.
- 19. any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division
Down
- 1. the third phase of mitosis
- 2. fertilized egg
- 3. Cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms
- 4. first and longest phase of mitosis
- 5. division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes
- 6. involving the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote
- 7. Any chromosome that is not a gender chromosome
- 10. exchange of genetic material between homologous chromosomes
- 14. progress
- 15. having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
- 16. division of the cytoplasm
- 17. one of a family of proteins that regulates the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells