A cell can divide into two or more cells through a process called cell division. A cell may divide by mitosis or by meiosis depends on the type of cell being formed.
This quiz will teach you the terms related to cell division as well as its processes and functions.
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Identical half of a duplicated chromosome.
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Chromatid
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Diploid
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Metaphase
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Eukaryotes
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An identical half of a replicated chromosome is called a chromatid. In the process of cell division, the chromosomes first replicate so that each of the daughter cells has its complete set of chromosomes. In the process of DNA replication, the chromosome is split into two identical structures called sister chromatids, which are joined at the centromere.
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Division and growth of cells that produce two new daughter cells.
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Cell Cycle
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Metaphase
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Meiosis
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DNA replication
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In a cell, the cell cycle is the sequence of events that causes it to divide into two daughter cells. After each daughter cell is formed, it enters its interphase and starts a new round of the cell cycle.
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A pair of maternal and paternal chromosomes paired up inside a cell during fertilization.
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Homologs
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Kinetochore
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Diploid
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Gene
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Homologous chromosomes, or homologs, are pairs of maternal and paternal chromosomes that pair up during fertilization.
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A region along a chromosome that divides the chromosome into a short arm (p) and a long arm (q).
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Centromere
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Cytoskeleton
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Chromatid
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Homologs
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In human chromosomes, the centromere separates chromosomes into what are referred to as P and Q arms. In cytogenetics, we use these P and Q arms to determine how many chromosomes are present in a cell and what their number is.
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A cell is produced by a reproductive division of a cell during mitosis or meiosis.
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Daughter cell
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Microtubule
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid
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Meiosis
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A daughter cell is a cell produced by the reproductive division of a cell during mitosis or meiosis.
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One part of the cell division process during which the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells divides into two daughters.
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Cytokinesis
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Metaphase
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Interphase
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Eukaryotes
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In cytokinesis, the cytoplasm of a single eukaryotic cell divides into two daughter cells. The process of cytoplasmic division begins during or after mitosis and meiosis.
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This is the process by which a molecule of DNA is duplicated.
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DNA replication
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Mitosis
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid
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Cell Cycle
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DNA replication occurs when a molecule of DNA is duplicated. To create two daughter cells with complete chromosome sets, a cell must duplicate its genome before dividing.
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A reproductive cell (sperm in males, eggs in females).
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Gamete
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Asters
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Interphase
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Kinetochore
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A gamete is a reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), with half of a complete set of chromosomes.
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The phase of the cell cycle in which a typical cell spends most of its life.
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Interphase
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Asters
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Telophase
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Metaphase
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There are two major phases of the cell cycle: interphase and mitotic phase. During interphase, cells undergo normal processes and prepare to divide. It takes many internal and external conditions for a cell to move from the interphase to the mitotic phase. Interphase is divided into three stages called G1, S, and G2.
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Chromosomes are split apart at the centromere.
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Anaphase
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Telophase
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Metaphase
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Meiosis
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In anaphase, duplicated chromosomes are split and newly-copied chromosomes (daughter chromatids) are moved to opposite poles of the cell following the process of metaphase.
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