Cell division

Question 1

What is the smallest unit of life

Answer 1

A cell

Question 2

What is the biggest organelle in eukaryotes

Answer 2

A nucleus

Question 3

What is in the nucleus

Answer 3

DNA

Question 4

What is DNA and what does it stand for

Answer 4

DNA is genetic material and stands for deoxy ribo nucleic acid

Question 5

What does DNA look like in the nucleus

Answer 5

It looks like a jumbled up ball of yarn made of a spiraling ladder

Question 6

What are genetic materials

Answer 6

Genes or traits passed from parents to offspring

Question 7

How does DNA grow develop and reproduce

Answer 7

Through stages called inter phase and mitosis

Question 8

What happens during inter phase

Answer 8

DNA develops and replicates

Question 9

What does replication mean

Answer 9

Copy or duplicate

Question 10

What happens during replication

Answer 10

DNA replicates and is wrapped up into a chromatid

Question 11

What is a chromatid

Answer 11

Neatly wrapped up DNA

Question 12

What is a chromosome

Answer 12

DNA wrapped around a protein

Question 12

How many chromosomes do people have

Answer 12

46 chromosomes

Question 13

How many chromosomes does a parent give do an offspring

Answer 13

23 chromosomes from each parent

Question 14

Each segment of DNA is called a

Answer 14

Gene

Question 15

What do genes contain

Answer 15

genetic traits

Question 16

What happens during mitosis

Answer 16

Chromosomes go through 5 phases

Question 17

What are all 5 phases of mitosis

Answer 17

Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, Cytokenisis

Question 18

what happens during phase 1

Answer 18

Chromosomes appear

Question 19

What happens during phase 2

Answer 19

Chromosomes line up

Question 20

What happens during phase 3

Answer 20

Chromosomes seperate

Question 21

What happens during phase 4

Answer 21

chromosomes pinch

Question 22

What happens during phase 5

Answer 22

Cytoplasm pinches and separates making 2 new cells

Question 23

How many chromosomes do sex cells have

Answer 23

23 in eggs and sperm

Question 24

How many chromosomes do body cells have

Answer 24

46 each

Question 25

What is a cell with full sets of chromosomes called (46)

Answer 25

A Duploid cell

Question 26

What is a cell with half a set of chromosomes called (23)

Answer 26

A Haploid cell

Question 27

Do bacteria go through mitosis

Answer 27

No, they do not have a nucleus

Question 28

How do bacteria cells divide

Answer 28

Binary fission

Question 29

Why do body cells divide

Answer 29

To repair grow and develop

Question 30

what is the backbone of DNA called

Answer 30

Sugar phosphate

Question 31

The DNA bases are

Answer 31

Guanine, Cytosine; Thymine, Adenine

Question 32

What pairs with Thymine

Answer 32

Adenine

Question 33

What pairs with Guanine

Answer 33

Cytosine