Human Cells (Revision)

Which type of cell division is used by Germline Stem cells to make gametes?

• Mitosis

• Meiosis

• Binary fission

True or False, diploid cells have 1 set of chromosomes.

• True

• False, they have 2 sets

• False, they have three sets.

Which type of stem cell can be described as pluripotent?

• Embryonic

• Tissue

• Germline

Why are embryonic stem cells pluripotent?

• all the genes are still switched on

• all the genes are switched off

What do cancer cells fail to respond to?

What word best describes how cancer cells divide?

• Abnormally

• Slowly

• Excessively

DNA Molecules are made of building blocks called ...

DNA nucleotides contain ... (select any that apply)

• Deoxyribose sugar

• Base

• Ribose sugar

• Phosphate Group

• Methyl

  Group

Bases are held together by ___ bonds?

• Hydrogen

• Peptide

• Disulphide

Two strands of DNA run in opposite directions - what word is used to describe this?