Mitosis Crossword

9. a single, circular DNA molecule.
11. measures how quickly food, oxygen, and water enter a cell through the cell membrane.
12. genetic material inside the nucleus condenses and the duplicated chromosomes become visible.
13. removes the tumor and often nearby lymph nodes.
17. tiny structures located in the cytoplasm of animal cells that help organize the spindle.
20. each strand of a duplicated chromosome.
23. area where each pair of chromatids is joined.
26. spread of cancer cells.
27. division of the cytoplasm.
30. drugs that kill rapidly dividing cells.
32. is noncancerous.
33. division of the cell nucleus.
34. cell membrane is drawn in until the cytoplasm is pinched into two equal parts.
36. a cell divides into two new “daughter” cells.
37. is cancerous.
38. determines the rate at which food and oxygen are used up and waste products are produced.

1. located in the nucleus, and are made up of chromatin.
2. completes the process of cell division; it splits one cell into two.
3. carry genetic information.
4. cells increase in size and synthesize new proteins and organelles.
5. nuclear envelopes re-form around each cluster of chromosomes.
6. mitosis and cytokinesis.
7. are a family of proteins that regulate the timing of the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells.
8. two parents produce diverse offspring.
10. involves a single parent producing identical offspring.
14. decreases as a cell grows.
15. new DNA is synthesized when the chromosomes are replicated.
16. is a process of programmed cell death.
18. damages the DNA of cancer cells.
19. the time between cell divisions.
21. is a disorder in which body cells lose the ability to control cell growth.
22. bacteria cell divides in two.
24. a fanlike microtubule structure that helps separate the chromatids.
25. many of the organelles and molecules required for cell division are produced.
28. centromeres of the duplicated chromosomes line up across the center of the cell.
29. cell plate forms between the divided nuclei that develops into a new cell wall.
31. a mass of cancer cells that divide uncontrollably.
35. chromosomes separate and move along spindle fibers to opposite ends of the cell.