Chap 5 Vocabulary

Regular pattern of growth and division in the life of a cell

• Mitosis

• Cell Cycle

• Cytokinesis

• Metastasis

Type of cell division that results in two identical daughter cells

• Chromosome

• Centromere

• Meiosis

• Mitosis

Division of the cytoplasm and organelles

• Cytokinesis

• Meiosis

• Cytodivision

• Mitosis

Very compact and condensed piece of DNA and protein that is visible during cell division.

• Chromatin

• Chromosome

• Cromatid

• Centromere

Long, threadlike piece of DNA and protein found in the nucleus of a nondividing cell.

• Chromosome

• Chromatid

• Chromatin

• Centromere

One of two identical strands of a chromosome

• Chromatin

• Centromere

• Cytomere

• Chromatid

The region of the chromosome that holds two sister chromatids together

• Cytoplasm

• Histone

• Centromere

• Chromatin

The end portion of a DNA molecule that do not form genes / protects our chromosomes

• Telomere

• Centromere

• Histone

• Chromatin

Chromatin condenses into chromosomes / Nuclear membrane disappears / Spindle fibers appear

• Telophase

• Anaphase

• Prophase

• Metaphase

Chromosomes uncoil and return to chromatin form / Nuclear membrane reappears / Spindle fibers disappear

• Telophase

• Anaphase

• Prophase

• Metaphase