Mitosis | Meiosis (Concept) | Meiosis (Process) | DNA Vocab | Miscellaneous |
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What is interphase, prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, cytokinesis
List all steps of the cell cycle in order
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What is to halve the genetic material
The purpose of meiosis
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What is to separate homologous chromosomes (I) and to separate sister chromatids (II)
List the function of each phase of Meiosis (I and II)
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What is a tightly packed and coiled DNA molecule
Chromosome
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What are the G1, S, and G2 phases
List the stages of interphase
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What is the chromosome must be duplicated
This must happen to chromosomes before mitosis can start
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What is 4
The number of cells division via meiosis produces
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What is prophase I
When crossing over occurs
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What is a complex of DNA and protein that coils
Chromatin
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What is mitosis
2x points: What is G1, G2, and Mitosis (anaphase)
The stage of the cell cycle during which MPF concentration is the highest
2x points: The three stages of the cell cycle with checkpoints |
What is the metaphase plate
Where chromosomes are found during metaphase
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What are germ cells
The cells where meiosis occurs
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What is homologous chromosomes aligning at the metaphase plate, and individual chromosomes aligning at the metaphase plate.
The difference between metaphase I (meiosis) and metaphase (mitosis)
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What is copies of an original chromosome that is still joined at the centromere
Sister Chromatids
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What are spindle fibers
The structures that attach chromosomes at their kinetochores.
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What is 46
The number of chromosomes are in a 2n (diploid) human cell during metaphase
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What is 84
2x points: 42 chromosomes in each
The diploid number of an n=42 organism
2x points: List the number of chromosomes in each cell |
What is unique
Are the individual chromosomes created via meiosis identical or unique?
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What is a pair of chromosomes with different versions of the same genes
Homologous Pair
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What is the G0 phase
The stage that non-dividing cells (often muscle cells) stay in
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What is 96
The number of sister chromatids in a n (haploid) human cell during S phase
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What are sporophyte (diploid) and gametophyte (haploid)
The two stages of alternation of generations in plants, and specify which is diploid and which is haploid
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What is diploid
The type of cell a cell in prophase 1 is
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What is 4 homologous chromatids or 2 homologous chromosomes
Tetrad
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What is to elongate the cell
The purpose of non-kinetochore spindle fibers
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