Download Honors Biology Chapter 8 Cell Cycle and Mitosis Review

Honors Biology
Chapter 8: Cell Cycle and Mitosis Review Sheet
1. Explain the relationship between the parent cell and the daughter cells produced
by asexual reproduction.
2. What is binary fission?
3. What types of organisms undergo binary fission?
4. Explain the difference among chromatin, chromosomes, and chromatids.
5. What role does a centromere play in the answer to question 4?
6. What are the two phases of the cell cycle?
7. Describe the events that take place during G1, S, G2.
8. Explain the purpose of mitosis.
9. Where does mitosis take place?
10. What is mitosis used for (3 answers)?
11. Describe the events taking place during mitosis and cyokinesis.
12. What is a kinetochore and where is it located?
13. What are centrosomes?
14. Be able to describe, draw and label a cell undergoing the cell cycle (given a
number of chromosomes).
15. Compare the daughter cells at the end of mitosis to each other and the parent cell.
16. How cytokinesis in plants different from that in animal cells?
17. What is anchorage dependence?
18. Describe density-dependence inhibition.
19. What are growth factors and how do they regulate the cell cycle?
20. Describe the cell cycle control system.
21. Compare benign tumors to malignant tumors in terms of danger, mobility, and
treatments.
22. What is it called when cancer cells spread beyond their site of origin?