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STUDY GUIDE CHAP 6 Gen BIO
1. Define and know: chromatids, centromere, karyotype, diploid, haploid, binary fission,
spindle fiber, homologous chromosomes, somatic cell, nondisjunction
2. How does DNA fit inside a cell?
3. C/c chromosomes in eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
4. List the characteristics of the chromosomes in your body: ex. amount, how many genes
contained, when they form.
5. If an organism has a haploid number of 20, how many chromosomes do they have?
6. Define Mitosis then list and define the steps of Mitosis, and what is happening in each.
7. What do you have at the end of mitosis and cytokinesis?
8. When does cytokinesis happen in plant cells?
9. C/c sexual and asexual reproduction.
10. Define and give examples of gametes, how many autosomes and how many sex
chromosomes in each.
11. What are sex chromosomes? Male? Female?
12. Why does the male determine the sex of a child?
13. Define mutation, give examples of chromosomal mutations
14. What is Down’s Syndrome, how would a person acquire it?
15. List and define each step in Interphase
16. What are checkpoints?
17. When do normal cells become cancer cells, do they respond to control mechanisms, do
they pass through the G1 phase?