Word Roots Ch. 12

Question 1

Ana

Answer 1

Up, throughout, again

Question 2

Bi

Answer 2

Two

Question 3

Centro

Answer 3

The center

Question 4

Mere

Answer 4

A part

Question 5

Chroma

Answer 5

Colored

Question 6

Cyclo

Answer 6

A circle

Question 7

Cyto

Answer 7

Cell

Question 8

Kinet

Answer 8

Move

Question 9

Gamet

Answer 9

A wife or husband

Question 10

Gen

Answer 10

Produce

Question 11

Inter

Answer 11

Between

Question 12

Mal

Answer 12

Bad or evil

Question 13

Meio

Answer 13

Less

Question 14

Meta

Answer 14

Between

Question 15

Mito

Answer 15

A thread

Question 16

Pro

Answer 16

Before

Question 17

Soma

Answer 17

Body

Question 18

Telos

Answer 18

An end

Question 19

Trans

Answer 19

Across

Question 20

Form

Answer 20

Shape

Question 21

Anaphase

Answer 21

The mitotic stage in which the chromatids of each chromosome have separated and the daughter chromosomes are moving to the poles of the cell.

Question 22

Binary fission *

Answer 22

A type of cell division in a which a cell divides in half

Question 23

Centromere *

Answer 23

The narrow “waist” of a condensed chromosome

Question 24

Chromatin

Answer 24

DNA and the various associated proteins that forms eukaryotic chromosomes

Question 25

Cyclin

Answer 25

A regulatory protein whose concentration fluctuates cyclically

Question 26

Cytokinesis*

Answer 26

Division of the cytoplasm

Question 27

Gamete*

Answer 27

A haploid egg or sperm cell

Question 28

Genome *

Answer 28

A cell’s endowment of DNA

Question 29

Interphase

Answer 29

Time when a cell metabolizes and performs its various functions

Question 30

Malignant tumor

Answer 30

A cancerous tumor that is invasive enough to impair functions of one or more organs

Question 31

Meiosis

Answer 31

A variation of cell division which yields daughter cells with half as many chromosomes as the parent cell

Question 32

Metaphase

Answer 32

The mitotic stage in which the chromosomes are aligned in the middle of the cell, at the metaphase plate

Question 33

Mitosis *

Answer 33

The division of the nucleus

Question 34

Prophase ^

Answer 34

The first mitotic stage in which the chromatin is condensing

Question 35

Centrosome

Answer 35

A nonmembranous organelle that functions throughout the cell cycle to organize the cell’s microtubules

Question 36

Telophase

Answer 36

The final stage of mitosis in which daughter nuclei are forming and cytokinesis has typically begun

Question 37

Transformation *

Answer 37

The process that converts a normal cell into a cancer cell