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cancer |
The result of an uncontrolled cell division. When cells divide and make more cells even after they are supposed to stop. |
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cell cycle |
It is the three stages of life of a cell, which includes interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis. |
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cytokinesis |
The final stage of the cell cycle, which it separates the two nuclei and cell contents into two daughter cells. |
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interphase |
The first and longest stage of a cell, the cells carry out the life functions and sometimes prepare for cell division. |
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mitosis |
This is the shortest and the second stage of the cell cycle. The process in which the duplicated contents of cell and nucleus divide into to equal parts. |
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replication |
It is a process during which the cell copies the DNA information in the nucleus. |
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spindle fibres |
Tiny tube-like structures that are made of proteins. They attach to chromosomes during the cell division. |
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sister chromatids |
These are formed when the DNA replicates during interphase and they are joined together by the centromere. |
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centromere |
This is the structure that joins two sister chromatids together. |
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early prophase |
The chromosomes are coiled into x-shapes. The nucleolus and the nuclear membrane will begin to break down. The spindle fibres begins to form. |
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late prophase |
The chromosomes attach to the spindle at their centromeres, and then the nuclear membrane disappears. |
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metaphase |
Spindle fibres pull the x-shape chromosomes into a single line that is across the middle of the cell. |
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anaphase |
The spindle fibres pull the sister chromatids to move to the opposite poles of the cell. |
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telophase |
A nuclear membrane forms around each set of the chromosomes. The cell is ready to divide. |
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asexual reproduction |
A reproduction that only requires one parent and produces an offspring that are genetic copies of the parent. |
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binary fission |
This is a form of asexual reproduction of a single parent cell. It replicates its genetic material and divide it into two different parts. |
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budding |
An asexual reproduction where areas of an individual do mitosis and grow another organism right on its own body. |
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clone |
An identical genetic copy pf the organisms parent. |
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fragmentation |
A form of asexual reproduction, which pieces break off the parent. Then each fragment develops into a clone of the parent. |
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spore |
Reproductive cells that grows into new individual by mitosis |
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stem cell |
Cells that have the potential to become many types of cells. There are two different types of stem cells: the embryonic stem cells and the adult stem cells. |
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vegetative reproduction |
A reproduction in which the special cells are usually in plant cells and plant roots. They divide repeatedly to form the structures that will eventually develop into a plant that is identical to the parent. |