Chapter 9 Vocab

A cycle of growing and dividing that cells use to reproduce

• Chromatin

• Cell Cycle

• Apoptosis

• Centromere

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Substances and agents that are known to cause cancer

• Carcinogens

• Centrioles

• Mitosis

• Sister Chromatid

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Unspecialized cells that can develop into specialized cells under the right conditions

• Cyclin

• Carcinogen

• Stem cell

• Cancer

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The stage of the cell cycle in which the cell's nucleus and nuclear material divides

• Apoptosis

• Chromosome

• Cytokinesis

• Mitosis

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Relaxed form of DNA in the cell's nucleus

• Cancer

• Chromosomes

• Stem Cell

• Chromatin

Enzyme to which cyclin binds during interphase and mitosis, triggering and controlling activities during the cell cycle

• Mitosis

• Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs)

• Spindle apparatus

• Chromosomes

Structure at the center of the chromosome where sister chromatids attach

• Centromere

• Cancer

• Spindle apparatus

• Cyclin-dependent kinase

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Uncontrolled cell growth and division -- failure to regulate the cell cycle

• Carcinogen

• Mitosis

• Cytokinesis

• Cancer

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Proteins that bind to CDKs to help regulate the cell cycle

• Cyclin-dependent kinases

• Cyclins

• Chromatin

• Sister chromatids

Programmed cell death

• Stem cell

• Cancer

• Apoptosis

• Mitosis