The continuity of life is based on the reproduction of cells

A complex of DNA and protein that condenses during cell division, found in eukaryotic chromosomes

The narrow “waist” of the duplicated chromosome, where the two chromatids are most closely attached

Assembly of spindle microtubules begins, chromosomes condense, centrosome replicates

Once the cell is finished dividing the two new cells will start the cell cycle over again beginning with interphase; most important checkpoint

Best distinguishes living things from nonliving matter

Packaged DNA molecules in a cell

Where spindle microtubules attach to chromosomes

Some spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of chromosomes and begin to move the chromosomes

Two types of regulatory proteins are involved in cell cycle control

All the DNA in a cell (library of herdeitary information)

Each duplicated chromosome has two, which separate during cell division

An apparatus of microtubules that controls chromosome movement during mitosis

The chromosomes are all lined up in the middle along this plate

A cyclin-Cdk complex that triggers a cell’s passage past the G2 checkpoint into the M phase

(nonreproductive cells) have two sets of chromosomes

Most cell division results in these cells with identical genetic information, DNA to the parent cell

90% of the cell cycle that consists of G1, S, and G2 phases

Sister chromatids separate and move along the kinetochore microtubules toward opposite ends of the cell

If the cell does not receive the go-ahead signal, it will exit the cycle, switching into a nondividing state called the ____ phase

(reproductive cells: sperm and eggs) have half as many chromosomes as somatic cells

The division of the nucleus

The division of the cytoplasm

Genetically identical daughter nuclei form at opposite ends of the cell

These cells do not respond normally to the body’s control mechanisms and may be benign or malignant