Cell Cycle Unit

4. Cells that have the ability to develop into different types of cells in the body.
5. A disease in which cells grow and divide uncontrollably.
8. The building block of an animal body.
9. Cells that have a nucleus.
13. The first stage of the cell cycle where the cell grows.
14. Cells that lack a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.

1. A series of steps a cell goes through to divide into two other cells.
2. The second stage of the cell cycle where the DNA divides.
3. The building block of plants.
5. A thread-like structure inside the cell's nucleus that contains genetic information.
6. A molecule inside cells that holds the genetic instructions for an organism.
7. Control mechanisms in the cell cycle that ensures the cell progresses through the phases correctly.
10. A programmed cell death.
11. The third stage of the cell cycle where the cell prepares to divide.
12. A complex of DNA and proteins that tightly coil together within the nucleus of a cell to form chromosomes.