Cell Division and Differentiation

Why do cells divide in humans?

• Growth and repair

• Making offspring

• Movement

• Creating Energy

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

What do cells spend most of their time doing?

• Splitting cytoplasm (cytokinesis)

• Growing (interphase)

• Copying their nucleus (mitosis)

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Stem cells ...

• differentiate.

• cause cancer.

• grow larger than other cells.

• divide faster than other cells.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Cancer cells ...

• differentiate.

• cause cancer.

• grow larger than other cells.

• divide more than other cells.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Which of the following statements is false?

• All cells in your body have the same DNA.

• All cells in your body have the same number of organelles.

• Cells in your body are different shapes and sizes.

• Cells in your body arose from a fertilized egg cell.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-2

How does your skin heal itself?

• Cancer

• Apoptosis

• Stem cells

• Mitosis

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

When the liver is damaged, what cells undergo mitosis to repair it?

• Skin Cells

• White Blood Cells

• Neurons

• Adipocytes

• Liver Cells

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

What causes mutations that can lead to cancer?

• exercise

• UV light

• radiation

• water

• genetics

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Healthy cells will ....

• never divide.

• divide, but maintain a consistent number of cells.

• divide slowly and die off quickly.

• divide without a limit and increase in number rapidly.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Cancer cells will ....

• never divide.

• divide, but maintain a consistent number of cells.

• divide slowly and die off quickly.

• divide without a limit and increase in number rapidly.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4