Across
- 4. times during cell cycle to determine readiness to continue
- 5. phase in which cells spend most of the time
- 9. cell death due to illness or injury
- 12. condensed form of DNA wrapped around proteins
- 13. the number of daughter cells resulting from mitosis
- 14. nervous and ___ cells are stuck in Go
- 16. cell division that creates identical daughter cells from a parent cell
- 17. first part of interphase where cell takes in nutrients and grows
- 18. organelle that disappears during mitosis
Down
- 1. one of the major functions of cell division
- 2. third part of interphase; getting ready for mitosis
- 3. one of the major functions of cell division
- 4. series of events taking place in a cell as it grows, replicates, divides, and repeats
- 6. abbreviated "S" phase; DNA duplicating
- 7. organisms that use binary fission, not mitosis
- 8. controlled cell death that is normal part of development
- 10. a picture of a person's chromosomes
- 11. one of major functions of cell division for multicellular organisms
- 15. your body has 50-75___ cells
