Name________________________________________________________________________________________Period______
Cell Cycle Study Guide
1.
What are three reasons a cell needs to undergo cell division?
2.
What are the 2 main parts to the cell cycle?
3.
4.
Which part of the cell cycle does a typical human cell spend the majority of its time? ___________________________________
Fill in the cell cycle diagram:
Describe the following from your cell cycle pie chart labels:
a)__________________________________________________
b)
b) _________________________________________________
c) ________________________________________________
a)
c)
d) Letters a – c represent what phase?_____________________
5.
Using the cell cycle picture above, what are d, e, f, g and
h pointing to individually and what process do they make up together?
a.
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b.
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c.
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d.
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e.
___________________
f. Together they are _______________________.
h)
6.
7.
8.
9.
g)
f)
e)
d)
Where do spindle fibers attach in order to move the chromatids in the cell? __________________________________________
Describe three important components of prophase.
a.
b.
c.
Describe the 2 distinguishing features of metaphase.
a.
b.
Describe what happens during anaphase.
10. Describe what happens during telophase.
11. Describe cytokinesis.
12. What is the difference between cytokinesis in plants cells and animal cells.
13. What structures help to move the chromosomes into place in the cell? _______________________________________________
14. In what form are the chromosomes during interphase? ___________________________________________________________
15. What is being divided in mitosis?____________________________________________________________________________
16. How many cells are made at the end of mitosis? _______________
17. How do the new daughter cells compare to the original parent cell? _________________________________________________
18. Using the picture below, label each!
a)
b)
c)
a) _________________
b) _________________
c) _________________
d) _________________
d)
19. Draw the following phases in the order that they occur: telophase, interphase, prophase, anaphase, and metaphase.
20. Why is it incorrect to call interphase a “resting phase”?
21. What phase comes directly before Mitosis? ______________________
22. What phase comes directly after Mitosis?_________________ = ( ____________ division)
23. What is a sister chromatid?
24. How do sister chromatids come to be in a cell?
25. Draw a pair of sister chromatids.
26. What is a homologous pair of chromosomes?
27. How do homologous pairs of chromosomes come to be in a cell?
28. Draw a pair of homologous chromosomes. (one before and one after replication)
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Match the characteristicsA. Pair of Sister Chromatids
B. Pair of Homologous Chromosomes
29. _____ Exact copies of each other
30. _____ Similar to each other
31. _____ One part of pair is from mom, other from dad
32. _____
Made by the process of DNA replication
33. _____
A result of the process of fertilization