Chapter 5 - Cell Growth & Division Quiz

The sequence of growth and division of a cell is called the _____.

Most of the cell's life spent in the growth phase

• Growth Factor

• Interphase

• Meiosis

A process of cell division that forms two new nuclei, each of which has an equal number of chromosomes.

• Mitosis

• Cytokinesis

• Apoptosis

The division of the cell's nucleus by mitosis or meiosis is _____.

One of the structures in the nucleus that are made up of DNA and protein

• Chromatid

• Histone

• Chromosome

A type of protein molecule found in the chromosomes of eukaryotic cells but not prokaryotic cells

• Histone

• Cancer

• Stem Cell

A substance that composes eukaryotic chromosomes that consists of specific proteins DNA and small amounts of RNA

• Chromatin

• Tissue

• Centromere

A _____ is one of the two strands of a chromosome that becomes visible during meiosis or mitosis.

The region of the chromosome that holds the two sister chromatids together during mitosis

• Spindle

• Centromere

The telomere is the region at the tip of a chromosome; a region made up of repeating DNA sequences that forms one of the end points of the DNA segment that makes up a chromosome.

• True

• False