Cell Division Vocabulary Zoology

The regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo

• mitosis

• cell cycle

• binary fission

• interphase

process in which cells become specialized in structure and function

• Differentiation

• mitosis

• cancer

• apoptosis

A form of asexual reproduction in single-celled organisms by which one cell divides into two cells of the same size

• cell cycle

• mitosis

• binary fission

• prophase

the first phase of the cell cycle when the cell grows, performs its normal functions, and prepares for division; consists of G1, S, G2 phases

• chromatin

• cytokinesis

• anaphase

• Interphase

part of eukaryotic cell division during which the cell nucleus divides

• mitosis

• interphase

• chromosome

• binary fission

Division of the cytoplasm during cell division

• sister chromatids

• Cytokinesis

• interphase

• mitosis

Substance found in eukaryotic chromosomes that consists of DNA tightly coiled around histones

• benign

• chromosome

• Chromatin

• tumor

threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes

• centromere

• sister chromatids

• Chromosomes

• chromatin

Identical copies of a chromosome; full sets of these are created during the S subphase of interphase.

• cytokinesis

• mitosis

• chromosomes

• sister chromatids

Area where the chromatids of a chromosome are attached

• spindle fibers

• prophase

• centromere

• apoptosis