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Mitosis Vocabulary Flashcards

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Section 5.1: Cell Cycle

Cell Cycle

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Pattern of grownt, DNA replication, and cell dicision that occurs in a eukaryotic cell

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Section 5.1: Cell Cycle

Mitosis

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Process by which a cell divides its nucleus and contents

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Section 5.1: Cell Cycle

Cytokinesis

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Process by which the cell cytoplasm divided

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DNA Replication (not from Ch 5)

DNA

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Molecule that stroes genetic information in all organisms

Deoxyribonucleic acid

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DNA Replication (not from Ch 5)

Replication

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process by which DNA is copied

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DNA Replication (not from Ch 5)

DNA polymarse

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enzyme that makes bond between nucleotides, froming an identical stem of DNA during replication

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Section 5.2: Mitosis & Cytokinesis

Chromosomes

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long, coninuos thread of DNA that consost of numerous genes and regulatory infromation

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Section 5.2: Mitosis & Cytokinesis

Histone

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proten that organizes chromosoms and around which DNA wraps

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Section 5.2: Mitosis & Cytokinesis

Chromatin

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one half of a dupicated chromosome

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Section 5.2: Mitosis & Cytokinesis

Centromere

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region of condensed chromosome that looks pinched; where spindle fibers attach during meiosis and mitosis

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Section 5.2: Mitosis & Cytokinesis

Telomere

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Repeating nucleotied at the end of DNA molecules that do not foem genes and help prevent the loss of genes

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Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Growth Factor

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broad group of proteins that stimulate cell division

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Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Apoptosis

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programe cell death

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Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Cancer

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common name for a class of disease characterized by uncontrolled cell division

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Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Benigin

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Having no fangerouse effect on health, sepecially referring to an abnormal growth causing harm to the organisms health

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Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Maligant

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To spread by transferring a disease-causingangent from the site of te desease to other pages of the body

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Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Metastasize

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to spread by transferring a deseas-casing angent from the site of the diseas to other pages of the body

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Section 5.3: Regulation of the Cell Cycle

Carcinogen

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Substance that produces or promotes the development of cancer

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Section 5.4: Asexual Reproduction

Asexual Reporduction

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process by which offspring are produced from a single parent; does not involve the joining of gametes

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Section 5.4: Asexual Reproduction

Binary Fission

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Asexual reproduction in which a cell divides into two equal parts

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Section 5.2: Mitosis and Cytokinesis

Chromatid

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loos combination of DNA and proteins that is present during interphase

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