Week 9 - Asexual Reproduction

mito

thread

telo

end

bin

two

fiss

split

somat

body

centr

center

mut

change

esis/sis

process

mere

part

chrom

color

somatic cells

body cells

mitosis

nuclear division of eukaryotic somatic cells

binary fission

cell division of prokaryotes (bacteria)

cytokinesis

division of the cytoplasm following nuclear division

cleavage furrow

indentation formed when a parent animal cell starts to pinch inward to divide into two separate cells

cell plate

structure that forms in the middle of a parent plant cell to start dividing the cell into two separate cells; eventually turns into the cell wall

asexual reproduction

type of reproduction involving one parent cell that divides into two identical daughter cells

chromatin

unorganized DNA during interphase

chromosome

organized DNA visible only during nuclear division

spindle fibers

structures that form during nuclear division and help move chromosome around