Across
- 3. A mass of body cells that do not respond to the signals that regulate the growth of most cells
- 6. Third event of mitosis
- 7. One of the duplicated strands of DNA, sometimes two strands are referred to as sister
- 9. A process of programmed cell death; cells end their life cycle in one of two ways: damage or programmed
- 12. Tiny paired structures where spindles come from to attach to the centromere
- 13. DNA, genetic information, that is bundled and packaged in the cell
- 14. First described phase of mitosis, takes the longest
- 15. The splitting of one cell into two; occurs after the phases of mitosis are complete; the process is different in plant and animal cells
Down
- 1. during the G1 phase and G2 phase the cell does this
- 2. the centromere of the duplicated chromosomes line up across the center of the cell
- 4. A mass of cells; can be benign which means the mass doesn't spread; or malignant which means the mass will spread throughout body
- 5. Part of cell cycle where the cell grows, DNA replicates, and the organelles and molecules produced for cell division
- 8. Duplication of the cell's genetic information which is described by four phases
- 10. number of phases in cell division
- 11. Where the duplicated strands of DNA attach
- 12. DNA exists in the nucleolus in chromatin form; "beads on a string" the beads are histone proteins and the the string is the DNA
- 15. A series of events where a cell grows, prepares for division and divides to form two daughter cells