Chapter 10

LS- Chapter 10

Genetics

Multiple Choice

1. What is a daughter cell?

• A cell that has split

• a type of reproduction that involves special cells called sex cells.

• a fertilized egg.

• Two cells which have gone through mitosis and are now in the cytokensis stage

Open Ended

Why is cell division simpler in prokaryotes than in eukaryotes?

Multiple Choice

cell division

• a structure made of DNA and protein in the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell.

• the stage of the cell cycle that occurs between cell divisions.

• the formation of new organisms of the same species.

• the process of one cell dividing into two daughter cells.

Multiple Select

What is the longest stage of the cell cycle?

• Prophase

• Interphase

• Mitosis

• anaphase

Multiple Select

What is the shortest stage of the cell cycle?

• Metaphase

• Cytokensis

• Telephase

• Anaphase

Multiple Choice

Which does not occur during prophase.

• The nuclear membrane breaks down.

• Chromosomes can be seen for the first time.

• Threads of spindle fibers are visible.

• Doubled chromosomes separate to opposite ends of the cell

Multiple Choice

Mitosis

• increases the number of cells without changing genetic information

• alters the information passed down to daughter cells.

• creates four daughter cells containing half the number of original chromosomes

• is the stage where cells grow and develop.

Multiple Select

There are 38 chromosomes in the liver cells of a cat. The sperm of male cat would contain ___ chromosomes.

• 38

• 19

• 24

• 56

Multiple Select

A fertilized egg

• contains only half the number of parental chromosomes.

• divides into new cells by mitosis.

• divides into new cells by meiosis.

• cannot undergo cell divisions.