Practice 4.0 Terminology

Fruit fly body cells have 8 chromosomes. After mitosis, you would expect a resulting fruit fly daughter cell to have ...

• 16 chromosomes.
• 46 chromosomes.
• 8 chromosomes.
• 4 chromosomes.

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The process by which the nuclear material is divided equally between two new cells

• mitosis
• cancer
• spindle
• centromere

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Structure (b) is a ____.

• chromosome
• chromatid
• centromere

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Structure (c) is a ____.

• chromosome
• chromatid
• centromere

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Each identical side of a chromosome is the 

• centromere
• chromatin
• centriole
• chromatid

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Histones are 

• proteins wound up in DNA
• critical to maintaining the shape of chromosomes
• aid in the tight packing of DNA
• all of these 

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When DNA is in its less coiled, "relaxed," state, between cell divisions, it is called

• autosomes
• chromatid
• chromatin
• centromere

The life cycle of a cell is called

• mitosis
• meiosis
• the cell cycle
• the cell life span

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DNA is inside your cells. What part of the cell is the DNA inside of?

• cell membrane
• cytoplasm
• nucleus

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The drawing shows the structure of what molecule?

• A DNA molecule
• A lipid molecule
• A carbohydrate molecule
• A protein molecule

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