Cell Division Review

What is the cell cycle?

• The gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form.
• The study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics.
• The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
• The series of events that take place in a cell leading to its division and duplication of its DNA to produce two daughter cells.

Which part of the Cell Cycle takes the longest?

• Interphase
• Mitosis
• Prophase
• Cytokinesis

What happens in the first part of Interphase?

• Mitosis
• Cell Growth
• DNA Replication
• Anaphase

What part of the cell cycle results in the splitting of the new cells?

• Interphase
• Mitosis
• Metaphase
• Cytokinesis

What phase is this cell in?

• Cytokinesis
• Mitosis
• Prophase
• Metaphase

What part of the cell cycle is this cell in?

• Mitosis
• Interphase
• Telophase
• Cytokinesis

In what phase does chromatin condense to form chromosomes?

• Mitosis
• Interphase
• Prophase
• Anaphase

DNA is replicated during ______ of the cell cycle.

• Gap 1

• Synthesis (S phase)

• Gap 2

• Gap 0

What occurs during G1?

• Checkpoint after S phase
• Chromosomes line up at the equator.
• The cell grows and develops.
• Spindle fibers separate chromosomes to opposite poles of the cell. 

During most of interphase, DNA is found in a relaxed form called

• chromosome

• centromere

• centriole

• chromatin