Chapter 10 Cell Growth and Division Vocabulary Practice

Process by which a cell divides into two new daughter cells

• Chromatin

• Daughter Cells

• Cell Division

• Differentiation

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Threadlike structure within the nucleus that contains genetic information that is passed on from one generation to the next

• Chromosome

• Chromatin

• Chromatid

• Centriole

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Substance found in eukaryotic chromosomes that consists of DNA tightly coiled around histones

• Chromosome

• Chromatin

• Chromatid

• Centriole

Series of events in which a cell grows, prepares for division, and divides to form two daughter cells

• Interphase

• Cyclin

• Cell Cycle

• Mitosis

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Division of the cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells

• Cytoplasm

• Cytokinesis

• Cell cycle

• Interphase

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Region of a chromosome where the two sister chromatids attach; center of the chromosome

• centromere

• sister chromatids

• chromatid

• daughter cell

One of two identical "sister" parts of a duplicated chromosome

• centromere

• centriole

• chromatid

• daughter cell

Structure in an animal cell that helps to organize cell division (spindle fibers form here)

• centriole

• chromosome

• chromatid

• cancer

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One of a family of proteins that regulates the cell cycle in eukaryotic cells

• carbohydrates

• lipids

• cyclins

• nucleic acids

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Disorder in which some of the body's cells lose the ability to control growth

• Differentiation

• Stem cell

• Tumor

• Cancer