Cell Division - Mitosis

Fruit fly body cells have 8 chromosomes. After mitosis, you would expect a resulting fruit fly daughter cell to have ...

• 16 chromosomes.
• 46 chromosomes.
• 8 chromosomes.
• 4 chromosomes.

Name the phase:

• Anaphase
• Telophase
• Metaphase
• Prophase

The organelle that helps in cell division and produces spindle fibers.

• Chromosome
• Centriole
• Cytoplasm
• Chloroplast

What portion of the cell cycle involves the actual dividing of the nuclear material?

• interphase
• mitosis
• Gap 1
• Gap 2

Before a cell can divide, what must happen?

• Nothing, it is always ready to divide
• The number of chromosomes must be cut in half
• The number of chromosomes must double
• The number of chromosomes must triple.

Structure (b) is a ____.

• chromosome
• chromatid
• centromere
• chromatin

Nuclear membrane forms around chromosomes and begins to separate.

• Anaphase
• Telophase
• Metaphas
• Prophase

What is the correct term for "cylinder-shaped organelles found in animal cells which help to form spindle fibers during cell division"?

• centriole
• nucleus
• spindle fibers
• cytokinesis

Chromosomes condense from long stands into rod like structures. 

• Prophase
• Interphase
• Metaphas
• Telophase

The phase in mitosis where chromosomes move away and are pulled apart by spindles to opposite sides of the cell.

• prophase
• anaphase
• metaphase
• telephase