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Week 6 Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
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1.

What is the name of the series of events for the growth, preparation for division and the dividing into two daughter cells?

a)

the cell cycle

b)

cytokinesis

c)

mitosis

d)

apoptosis

2.

Interphase is the term for what period?

a)

the period of the cell cycle between cell division and mitosis

b)

the phase when the chromosomes line up

c)

the longest phase of mitosis

d)

the division of the cytoplasm

3.

What is the process of dividing the cell nucleus called?

a)

mitosis

b)

interphase

c)

metaphase

d)

cell division

4.

The first and longest phase of mitosis when the genetic material condenses and the chromosomes become visible is...

a)

prophase

b)

metaphase

c)

anaphase

d)

telophase

5.

What is metaphase?

a)

the phase of mitosis when the chromosomes line up across the center of the cell.

b)

the phase of the cell cycle when the DNA is copied

c)

the phase of mitosis when the nucleuses reforms

d)

the phase of mitosis when the chromosomes are separated to opposite sides of the cell.

6.

What is the phase of mitosis when the chromosomes separate and move to opposite sides of the cell?

a)

prophase

b)

anaphase

c)

telophase

d)

metaphase

7.

In telophase, what do the individual chromosomes do?

a)

the chromosome spreads out into tangles of chromatin

b)

the chromosome condenses into a tight string

c)

the chromosome splits into two sister chromosomes

d)

the chromosome is inactive

8.

What is a centromere?

a)

the region of a chromosome where two sister chromatids attach, making a x-shape.

b)

the cell structure which directs the movement of chromosomes using the cytoskeleton

c)

the tubes which connect the centrosome and chromosome

d)

one of two identical "sister" parts of a duplicated chromosome

9.

Each of the two identical "sister" parts of a duplicated chromosome is called a(n) ______________.

a)

chromatid

b)

centromere

c)

cytokinesis

d)

cell cycle

10.

What is the division of cytoplasm to form two daughter cells called?

a)

cytokinesis

b)

centromere

c)

mitosis

d)

cell cycle