Review - Chapter 6

All of this will be on the test. Quiz yourself! Requiz yourself! Have someone else quiz you!

1. What is trisomy?
2. What causes Down Syndrome?
3. What is nondisjunction?
4. What is cytokinesis?
5. How many chromosomes does a human sperm contain?
6. How many chromosomes does a human somatic cell contain?
7. What is a somatic cell?
8. How do bacteria reproduce?
9. What is responsible for moving chromosomes during mitosis?
10. What are autosomes?
11. In what phase does a cell spend most of its life?
12. What does each phase of mitosis look like?
13. What happens during each of the phases?
14. What are the four phases of mitosis (from first to last)?
15. What is cancer? What causes cancer?
16. What is a zygote?
17. What is the difference between diploid and haploid?
18. What is a karyotype?
19. What types of tests can be performed on a fetus?
20. What are homologous chromosomes?
21. What are chromatids?
22. What is binary fission?
23. What is a centromere?
24. Can you describe or sketch each of the phases of mitosis?
25. What are the five parts of the cell cycle?
26. What are the four types of chromosome mutations (and explain each)?
27. What is a gene?
28. How many chromosomes are in a human body cell? How many chromosomes would there be in the whole body (estimating)?
29. What are centrioles? What types of cells have them?
30. What is the spindle?