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MITOSIS WORKSHEET
MODERN BIOLOGY (blue book) pgs. 128-135
1. Define or explain the following terms:
pro –
meta –
homo Diploid –
Haploid –
Heredity –
Homologous chromosomes Mitosis centromere –
chromatin
chromatid –
cytokinesis -
2. Name the 5 phases of mitosis and come up with a saying that uses the first letters of
each phase to help you remember the names and order of the phases.
3. INTERPHASE:
A. What happens to a cell during interphase?
B. What happens to the DNA in a cell at the end of interphase?
4. PROPHASE:
A. What happens to the shape of the chromosomes during this phase?
B. What happens to the nuclear membrane?
C. What are spindle fibers?
Where do they attach?
What do they do
5. METAPHASE:
A. What happens to the chromosomes?
6. ANAPHASE:
A. What happens to the chromosomes?
7. TELOPHASE:
A. What happens to the chromosomes?
B. What happens to the spindle fibers?
C. What happens to the cytoplasm?
D. What happens to the nuclear membrane?
E. What is the end result?
8. A. What forms during telophase of a plant cell that does not form in an animal cell?
B. What does this structure become in the plant cell?
9. Why must mitosis occur?
(Why is it important?)