Cell Cycle Crossword Puzzle

3. Deoxyribonucleic acid, the genetic material which carries all the hereditary information.
6. The basic unit of heredity passed from parent to child.
7. The phase where spindle fibers begin to disappear and chromosomes begin to uncoil.
9. A process where a single cell divides into two identical daughter cells.
10. The phase where the cytoplasm divides.
12. The phase where growth, cellular functions, and chromosome replication happens.
13. The resting phase between divisions of a cell. During this phase, the cell prepares to go through the other phases while also growing and doing normal cell functions.
16. Purpose/Result: Reproduction, Growth, repair. This is what the cell does to achieve these purposes.
18. The phase where spindle fibers begin to disappear and chromatins begin to uncoil.

1. The phase where the two sister chromatin in each chromosome separate.
2. The phase where copied chromatin coils together and the nucleus disappears.
3. Definition: Separate or be separated into parts.
4. The phase where spindle fibers pull and push duplicated chromosomes to the middle.
5. A threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.
6. growth and cellular function, organelle reproduction.
8. Protein structures that pull apart the genetic material in a cell when the cell divides.
11. The cells that result from the reproductive division of one cell during mitosis.
14. A cell that is the source of other cells.
15. Growth and cellular function, organelle replication.
17. The material that makes up chromosomes in cells other than bacteria.