Across
- 6. a stick or pin used to twist the yarn when making thread
- 7. the stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle
- 8. an organism of one or more cells with membrane-bound nuclei
- 9. reproduce or make an exact copy of
- 11. the process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells
- 13. cell division that produces reproductive cells
- 15. having two of each chromosome
- 17. a sheet of tissue that lines or connects organs or cells
- 18. the second stage of meiosis
- 19. organic process consisting of the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following karyokinesis bringing about the separation into two daughter cells
Down
- 1. the process by which a cell divides into two smaller cells
- 2. The first stage of meiosis
- 3. a part of the cell responsible for growth and reproduction
- 4. one of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of 9 triplet microtubules
- 5. The process of doubling the DNA that occurs before mitosis
- 10. reproduction without the fusion of gametes
- 11. one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis
- 12. a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape
- 14. a threadlike strand of DNA that carries genes
- 16. the final stage of meiosis when the chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle