Download Quiz – Mitosis

honors Biology
Unit 11 cell division
Name: _______________________
homework 3 – mitosis
Label each statement below with the stage of mitosis or the cell cycle that it describes.
Answers may be used once, more than once, or not at all. USE YOUR TEXT!
____1. In this phase the nuclear membrane
disappears and chromosomes are
visible for the first time.
a. Prophase
____2. DNA is in chromatin form.
b. Cytokinesis
____3. SAC are now moving towards the
poles
c. Anaphase
____4.
d. Metaphase
DAC are lined up at the equator of
the cell.
____5. Cytoplasm divides in two.
e. Interphase
____6.
f. Telophase
Centromeres are broken as
spindles fibers contract and shorten.
____7. Identical chromatids are at the poles
____8.
Nuclear membranes are reforming
around daughter nuclei
____9.
In this phase, spindle fibers begin
to form and centrioles start to move
towards the poles.
____10. Spindle fibers are disappearing
____11.
DNA replicates.
Answer the following questions about the cells pictured below.
A
B
C
12) What phase of mitosis is Cell A in? Describe what happened JUST BEFORE this picture was taken.
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13) What phase of mitosis is cell B in? How did you know? _______________________________
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14) What phase of mitosis is cell C in? What form of DNA is found in this picture?
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Fill in the answers to the following questions. THINK!!
In all cases, the cells are dragon in origin. Dragons have a diploid number of 16.
Diploid is 2n, or the total number of chromosomes in both sets of chromosomes.
_______ 15) How many chromosomes are in a female dragon’s muscle cell that is in metaphase of
mitosis? What kind of chromosomes? (SAC or DAC?)
_______ 16) How many chromosomes are in a male dragon’s toe cell that is in anaphase of mitosis?
_______ 17) What kind of chromosomes are found in #16? (SAC or DAC?)
_______ 18) How many chromatin pieces are in grandma dragon’s skin cell that healed a paper cut?