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Cell Cycle and Mitosis
Name ___________________________
1. What are the two parts of the cell cycle?
2. Provide a definition of mitosis below.
3. What is the purpose of mitosis? In other words, why do cells need to go through mitosis?
4. Can you give a specific example of where mitosis might be needed in the human body?
5. In which stage of mitosis does the spindle disappear? ___________________________
6. In which stage of mitosis does the spindle appear? _____________________________
7. In which stage of mitosis do the centrioles migrate to the pole (opposite) ends? ________________
8. In which stage of mitosis do the chromosomes line up in the midline of the cell? _______________
9. In which stage of mitosis does the nucleolus and nuclear envelope disappear? _________________
10. In which stage of mitosis does the nucleolus and nuclear envelope reappear? __________________
11. In which stage of the cell cycle do the sister chromatids separate and move to opposite ends of cell?
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12. In which stage of the cell cycle is DNA replicated? ______________________
13. Which stage of the cell cycle is longest? _______________________________
14. In which stage of the cell cycle does the chromatin coil up into chromosomes? ________________
15. In which stage of the cell cycle do the chromosomes uncoil back into chromatin? ______________
16. In which stage of the cell cycle does most of protein synthesis occur? _______________________
17. In which stage of the cell cycle does most of organelles and centrioles form? __________________