CELL CYCLE AND MITOTIC CELL DIVISION STUDY GUIDE
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What is the cell cycle?
What is the sequence of phases of the cell cycle?
The cell cycle can be divided into two stages. What are they?
What occurs during interphase?
What are the three phases of interphase & what happens in each phase?
What is the difference between chromosomes and chromatin?
Know what stages genetic material is chromosome, chromatin, single arm, or
double arm
8. Know what a chromatid is
9. Why & when does DNA replicate?
10. What two stages can cell division be broken into?
11. What is mitosis?
12. What is cytokinesis?
13. What are the stages of mitosis?
14. How does cytokinesis differ in plant & animal cells? Why?
15. What happens in prophase?
16. What happens in metaphase?
17. What happens in anaphase?
18. What happens in telophase?
19. What is the purpose of mitotic cell division?
20. What is the end result of mitotic cell division?
21. Do you grow by increasing number of cells or cells enlarging?
22. What factors limit cell size and why?
23. Do cells have the same length to their cell cycle?
24. What is G0 stage? What its significance?
25. What is longest phase of cell cycle?
26. Be able to identify the different stages of the cell cycle if given picture of
microscope slide
27. What is cancer?
28. What regulates cell division?
29. What is mutated in cancer?
30. Can a mutation to any gene cause cancer?
31. Can cancer mutation be inherited?