AP Biology - Unit 4 - The Cell Cycle

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Cell Cycle

series of events in which a cell grows, lives, and replicates

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Differentiated Cells

Cells with jobs, specialized characteristics (ex. skin cells, heart cells, brain cells)

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Stem Cells

found in bone marrow, immature cells, not yet differentiated

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Cytokinesis

The physical process of cell division, cytoplasm divides into two daughter cells

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Mitosis

Cell division, results in two identical daughter cells, 5 phases (interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase)

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Interphase

most of the cells life

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G1 (gap 1) Phase

Cell grows

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S (synthesis) Phase

DNA and Centrisomes are replicated (interphase)

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G2 (gap 2) Phase

Final phase

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Apoptosis

cell suicide

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Prophase

nuclear membrane disintegrates

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Prometaphase

The second stage of mitosis

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Metaphase

the doubled chromosomes

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Anaphase

chromosomes split in half and move to opposite sides of the cell; the cell membrane begins to pinch at the center

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Telophase

cell membrane finished constricting

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Gene

Section of DNA

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Histone

Protein that DNA is coiled around for packaging

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Nucleosome

histone-DNA complex

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Chromosome

Many nucleosomes wrapped together

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Autosomes

Chromosomes 1-22 (human)

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Sex Chromosomes

chromosome 23

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Centromere

band that attaches the sister chromatids together

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Kinetochore

a complex of proteins associated with the centromere of a chromosome during cell division

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Diploid Cell

A cell containing two sets of chromosomes

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Haploid Cell

A cell containing only one set of chromosomes

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Phosphorylation

the process of adding a phosphate group to a molecule

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Cyclin Dependent Kinase

regulates the cell cycle by phosphorylating the proteins that trigger cell reproduction

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Angiogenesis

formation of new blood vessels

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Metastasis

the spread of cancer cells beyond their original part of the body

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Contact Inhibition

the process that stops healthy cells from dividing when there is not an open space

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Cancer Cells

Cells with mutations in the genes that control the cell cycle

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