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EXTRA CREDIT Mitosis Meiosis Study Guide
1. What happens to the ratio of volume to surface area, as a cells’ size increases?
2. Why are cells small?
3. Which cell would produce more waste: cell with a volume of 10cm3, or one with a surface area of 10cm2? Explain
why.
4. What is mitosis?
5. Does cell division increase the mass of the original cell?
6. What would happen to a cell that did not double its materials before division?
7. What stage shows actual chromosomes?
8. List the function of each: G1phase, G2 phase, S phase, M phase.
9. What is the function of Interphase?
10. When does cell division end (what is the name)?
11. Explain what the cell cycle is.
12. Draw and label the following: centromere, sister chromatid, chromosome, homologous pair, tetrads
13. List in order the phases of mitosis, but begin with Interphase.
14. When do cells line up in the middle?_____________When do sister chromatids break apart?___________
15. What is the function of a spindle fiber?
16. What is the difference in mitosis of a plant and animal cell?
17. In mitosis, if the parent cell has 10 chromosomes, how many chromosomes does each daughter cell have?
18. What happens to cells when they touch?
19. What happens to a cell that is in Interphase, and is injected with cytoplasm from a cell in mitosis?
20. What are cyclins?
21. List 3 things that regulate the cell cycle.
22. What is cancer?
23. What does “N” represent?
24. Gametes (sex cells) have how many homologous chromosomes? List this number in terms of “n”.
25. How are gametes produced?
26. What is shown to the right?
27. What is a tetrad?
28. What does not occur in prophase II (which does in prophase 1 of meiosis)
. that allows for haploid cells?
29. What is the end product of meiosis with chromosomes?
30. Why doesn’t cross over occur in mitosis?
31. Find the surface area of a cube that has a length of 3cm. Find the volume of the cube and
then calculate the surface area to volume ratio. Sa/v.
32. What does the p53 gene have to do with cancer?
33. What is metastasis?
34. Describe what occurs in each of the phases of the cell cycle.
A.
C
B.
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35. What is X and Y?
36. What is going on in each picture?
A.
B
C.
D.
37. What is shown below?
38. During which stage do new chromosome orders form?
39. Which stages are 2N, and which are N?
40. At the end of this, how many sperm and how many eggs will be formed from G?
41. What is the difference between cell division and mitosis?
42. Define Allele.
43. Why does meiosis not have a prophase II?
44. What is a polar body?