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Cell Growth and Division

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Mass of rapidly dividing cells that can damage surrounding tissue.
1st phase of mitosis: longest phase
Final phase of mitosis: chromosomes begin to spread out into a t6angle of chromatin
Cells go through a series of events called ____ _____as they grow and divide.
2 cells produced by cell division are genetically identical to the cell that produced them.
1st stage: division of nucleus.
The process by which a cell divides into 2 new daughter cells.
Structure in an animal cell that helps to organize cell division.
Genetic information is bundled into packages of DNA.
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3rd phase of mitosis: when sister chromatids suddenly separate and begin to move apart.
Unspecialized cell that can give rise to one or more types of specialized cells.
Duplicated strands of the DNA molecule can be seen to be attached along their length at an area called _______.
"in between" period of growth.
Involves the fusion of 2 separate parent cells.
2nd phase of mitosis: the shortest.
Division of the cytoplasm to form 2 separate daughter cells.
DNA tightly coiled around histones in eukaryotic cells.
One of two identical "sister" parts of a duplicated chromosome.
A disorder in which body cells lose ability to control growth.