Thursday, February 11, 2016

Jamilya Rich - Crash Course

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1.) In your body, what can clone itself?
Cells
2.) Which process is used to repair cells?
Mitosis
3.) In the video, Hank gives examples of what mitosis does. What are some of those examples?

4.) How does a 7 pound baby eventually become a 70 pound child?
The cells are not increasing the mass, its only duplicating them.
5.) About how many times will mitosis happen in your lifetime?
10,000,000,000,000,000
6.) What stores DNA in the cell?
Nucleus
7.) How is the DNA organized in your cells?
DNA is organized into chromosomes
8.) What kind of cells are the 46 chromosome (pairs)?
Diploid Cells
9.) What are the phases of mitosis?

10.) What type of cells are sex cells?
Gametes
11.) Most cells spend their life in which phase?
Inter-phrase
12.) What phase does the chromatin start to condense into chromosomes?
Pro-phrase
13.) When does the nuclear envelope disintegrate? (which phase)
Pro-phrase
14.) What are the job of the microtubules?

15.) Who first observed the process of mitosis?
Walter Flamming
16.) What does mitosis mean? (Historical Greek definition)
Thread
17.) What the most recent discovery of mitosis by an MIT student? (Just one point please)

18.) Which phase separates the chromosomes?

19.) What does the prefix "ana" mean?

20.) What happens in telophase?

21.) What is the division of 2 new cells called?

22.) What are the names of the two new cells?

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