Download Study guide for Chapter3: Cell division and Chapter 4

Study guide for Unit: Chapters 3 and 4.3 test (DNA, Mitosis and Meiosis)
Please use the following resources as you complete this study guide:
Ttextbook pages C 73-92, C117-119 and C 135-136
1. Define the following terms: Chromosomes, Chromatids, DNA, Cell cycle, Haploid, Diploid Cell
Division, Unicellular, Multicellular, Prokaryotic, Eukaryotic, Nucleus, Fertilization, Asexual
Reproduction sexual reproduction, Allele, and Gamete
2. Describe what type of relationship DNA, Nucleus, Genes, Cells and Chromosomes have?
3. What are the three parts of the cell cycle?
4. Describe the changes to a single cell during Interphase and Cytokinesis?
5. What are two types of cell division?
6. Create a listing of differences between mitosis and meiosis?
7. What factors make mitosis important? List at the least 3 reasons?
8. Some types of asexual reproduction are possible due to mitosis. Outline what happens to an organism
when it undergoes the following types of Asexual Reproduction: Budding, Binary fission and
Regeneration?
9. What are advantages and disadvantages of Asexual reproduction?
10. What are advantages and disadvantages of Sexual reproduction?
11. List and explain in at the least 6 sentences, why organisms produced by sexual reproduction have a
greater degree of variation.