Honors Bio. Mitosis Review
1. Why does mitosis occur?
2. Where does mitosis occur?
3. Cell division is based on which scientists principle regarding the cell theory?
4. Describe the main difference between a eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell.
5. Why are daughter cells that result from mitosis identical?
6. What is the function of centrioles in an animal cell?
7. What is a kinetocore?
8. List the stages of the cell cycle and include each sub-phase where applicable.
9. How are centrioles and centrosomes related?
10. Compare and contrast mitosis in plant cells and animal cells.
11. How is mitosis related to cancer?
12. List the checkpoints in the cell cycle and explain what occurs at each checkpoint.
13. Describe the role of checkpoints in the onset of cancer.
14. List and explain 4 factors that control the rate of growth of cells.
15. Which animal cell would not undergo mitosis?
16. Describe how the terms gene and chromosome are related.
17. Describe how the terms chromosome and chromatid are related.
18. Name and explain the process by which prokaryotic cells divide.
19. Explain the main difference between Cytokinesis in animal cells and Cytokinesis in plant cells
20. What would result if chromosome did not replicate during interphase?
21. Explain the basic concept of how cancer cells metastisize.
22. List four basic categories of cancer and give two examples of each.
23. Generally describe how chemotherapy affects cancer cells and what causes the side effects of this treatment.
24. Draw a chromosome and label the centromere and sister chromatids.
25. What is Cytokinesis and when does it occur during the cell cycle?
Be sure you are able to draw and explain what happens in each phase of mitosis (prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase)
Make sure you can draw all stages of mitosis and the know the events in each phase.