Reviewer on Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Cancer Cells 2025

Which event occurs during interphase?

• a. The cell carries out metabolic growth processes.
• b. Centrioles appear.
• c. Spindle fibers begin to form.
• d. Centromeres divide.

During which phase of mitosis do the chromosomes line up along the middle of the dividing cell?

• a. prophase
• b. telophase
• c. metaphase
• d. anaphase

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The process of the cell cycle in which the nucleus divides into two is called

• a. cytokinesis.
• b. metaphase.
• c. interphase.
• d. mitosis

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The cell cycle is the

• a. series of events that cells go through from “birth” to reproduction
• b. period of time between the birth and the death of a cell.
• c. time from prophase until cytokinesis.
• d. time it takes for one cell to undergo mitosis.

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. The region labeled B in Figure 9-1 is called the

• a. centromere.
• b. centriole.
• c. sister chromatids.
• d. spindle microtubules.

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Which of the following is a correct statement about the events of the cell cycle?

• a. Little happens during the G1 and G2 phases.
• b. DNA replicates during cytokinesis.
• c. The Mitotic phase is usually the longest phase.
• d. Interphase consists of the G1, S, and, G2 phases.

List the correct order for the diagrams of the mitosis process in Figure 9-4.

• a. A, B, C, D
• b. D,C,B,A
• c. D,A,C,B
• d. D,B,A,C

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What would be the (diploid) chromosome number of the cell shown in Figure 9-4?

• a. 4
• b. 8
• c. 2
• d. 16

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What Phases of Mitosis is shown below

• Prophase
• Metaphase
• Anaphase
• Telophase

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A benign tumor is _____.

• A. A growth that does not invade surrounding tissue
• B. A small cancerous mass of cells
• C. noncancerous mass of cells
• a and c
• a, b, or c