The Cell

Metastasis

________: when cells separate from a malignant tumor and enter the blood or lymph vessels and travel to other parts of the body.

Sister chromatids

________ begin to separate pulled apart by motor molecules interacting with kinetochore microtubules.

Humans

What are haploid (23 chromosomes)

Transformation

________: the process that converts a normal cell to a cancer cell.

nuclear envelope

The ________ begins to fragment, allowing the microtubules to attach to the chromosomes.

mitotic spindle

The ________ (consisting of microtubules) begins to form in the cytoplasm.

meiotic phase

The ________ alternates with interphase in the cell.

nuclear

The ________ envelopes re- form around the sets of chromosomes located at opposite ends of the cell.

Genome

________: cells genetic info, & before a cell can divide, the ________ must be copied.

microtubule complex

What is referred to as the spindle? Answer with a single words or term.

Somatic cells

________: have 46 chromosomes.

Cancer cells

________ form due to a lack of density dependent inhibition or anchorage dependency.

G1 phase checkpoint

________: the most important, if a cell passes this point, it usually completes the whole cell cycle and divides, if not it enters the non dividing phase called the G0 phase.

Cell control system

________: moves the cell through its stages by a series of checkpoints, places where signals to continue or stop dividing.

Cell cycle

________: the life of a cell from the time its first formed from a dividing parent cell until its own division into two cells.