Cell Cycle: Mitosis
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Cell Cycle: Mitosis Sample Test Questions
3. After mitotic cell division in a diploid organism, each cell (parent cell and daughter cell) does NOT have...
a. duplicated chromosomes
b. homologous chromosomes
c. the same number of chromosomes as before division
d. a nuclear membrane
4. Cells spend the most amount of time in which phase?
a. interphase b. prophase c. metaphase
d. anaphase e. telophase
5. During which phase of mitosis do chromosomes condense?
a. interphase b. prophase c. metaphase
d. anaphase e. telophase
7. What do you call a eukaryotic cell's genetic material during interphase?
1.There are two primary phases in the cell cycle. The name of the cell cycle involving nuclear division is ______. The name of the cell cycle in which the cell grows and prepares for cellular division is _______.
a. interphase, meiosis
b. mitosis, interphase
c. prophase, anaphase
d. metaphase, telophase
e. mitosis, meiosis
the chromosomes are condensed and compact.
a. True b. False
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8. In mitosis, chromosomes line up at the equatorial plate during...
a. prophase b. interphase c. metaphase
d. anaphase e. telophase
9. Through a microscope you see a cell plate beginning to develop across the middle of a cell and nuclei reforming on either side of the cell plate. The cell you are looking at is most likely...
c. an animal cell in the S phase of the cell cycle
d. a bacterial cell dividing
e. a plant cell in metaphase
10. Which of the following correctly ranks nucleic acid structures in order of size, from smallest to largest?
a. gene, chromosome, nucleotide, codon
b. nucleotide, codon, gene, chromosome
c. chromosome, gene, codon, nucleotide
d. nucleotide, chromosome, gene, codon
e. chromosome, nucleotide, gene, codon