The process of copying DNA prior to cell division.

Thymine, Cytosine & Uracil

Adenine & Guanine

A, T, C & G

The membrane that protects the nucleus and the genetic material.

A structure in animal cells that helps to organize cell division.

A series of events in which a cell grows, prepares for division, and divides to form two daughter cells.

A period of the cell cycle between divisions.

Part of eukaryotic cell division during which the cell’s nucleus divides.

The division of the cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells.

A disorder in which some of the body’s cells lose the ability to control growth.

The structure that contains the cells genetic material.

The threadlike structure of DNA and protein that contains genetic information.

Genetic material that organisms inherit from their parents.

A subunit of which nucleic acids are composed, made up of a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogen base.

The twisted ladder shape of DNA.

An enzyme that unwinds the DNA during replication.

A principal enzyme involved in DNA replication.