Mitosis: The Amazing Cell Process That Uses Division to Multiply

What is the process called that allows your body cells to divide and grow?

• Meiosis

• Mitosis

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

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Why is mitosis important for your body?

• It helps in digestion

• It allows for cell division and growth

• It produces energy

• It helps in breathing

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What happens if your cells do not divide?

• You would not grow

• You would grow faster

• You would become stronger

• You would become more intelligent

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Mitosis is a type of cell division done by most of your body cells. True or False?

• True

• False

Fruit fly body cells have 8 chromosomes. After mitosis, you would expect a resulting fruit fly daughter cell to have ...

• 16 chromosomes.

• 46 chromosomes.

• 8 chromosomes.

• 4 chromosomes.

Why do cells go through mitosis?

• to make food from sunlight

• to get air into the cells

• to create proteins

• to reproduce, grow, and repair/replace cells

These structures pull the spindle fibers and attached chromosomes to opposite ends of the cell.

• Spindle fiber

• Centriole

• Nucleus

• Centromere

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The organelle that helps in cell division and produces spindle fibers.

• Chromosome

• Centriole/Centrosomes

• Cytoplasm

• Chloroplast

The dark "spider" looking things on opposite sides of the cell are called "Spindle Fibers".  What is their job?

• Eating the chromosomes

• Pulling the chromosomes apart

• Putting the chromosomes together

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Using the picture - identify the following

• structure Y

• chromosomes

• structures lined up on the equator of the cell

• centrioles

• structure X

• spindle fibers

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