MCAS Review #2

What does NOT happen during interphase?

• growth

• DNA replication 

• obtaining nutrients

• cell divison

Cells spend the majority of their lives in

• Interphase

• Mitosis

• Synthesis 

• Gap 2

Cells of organisms must go through cell division for?

• growth

• repair of damaged cells

• replacement of dying cells.

• All of these

DNA is replicated during ______ of the cell cycle.

• Gap 1

• Synthesis (S phase)

• Gap 2

• Gap 0

When cells go through mitosis repeatedly without entering interphase, this results

• arthritis

• cancer

• mutation

• diabetes

What process does a multi-cellular organism use to replace its damaged body cells?

• mitosis

• meiosis

• replication

• transcription

What is the image above:

• Chromosome

• Chromotid

• Centromere

• Centriole

In humans, the haploid number of chromosomes is ____.

• 23

• 46

• 69

• 92

Which of the following is the best definition for MEIOSIS?

• the process of two haploid cells uniting

• the counting of chromosomes within a diploid cell

• a two-step process that reduces the number of chromosomes in half such that there is only one copy of all the chromosomes

• the equational division of a cell into two identical copies

How many cells are formed at the end of Meiosis?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 8