Question 1
You would know a dividing cell was a plant cell rather than an animal cell if you saw that ________________.
A. the nucleolus was visible during metaphase
B. it had formed a cell plate
C. it had two pairs of centrioles in prophase
D. it had microtubules
E. it had formed a cleavage furrow
Question 2
"Cytokinesis" refers to _________________.
A. division of the nucleus
B. movement of a cell from one place to another
C. reduction in the number of chromosomes
D. division of the entire cell
E. division of the cytoplasm
Question 3
Sister chromatids _______________.
A. have matching copies of the chromosomes's DNA
B. are created when DNA is replicated
C. are attached at the centromoere prior to division
D. are separated during mitosis
E. all of the above
Question 4
The function of the cell cycle is to produce daughter cells that _____________.
A. are genetically identical to the parent cell (assuming no mutation has occurred)
B. have the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell but not the same genetic content
C. have the same number of chromatids as the parent cell had chromosomes
D. have a random assortment of maternal and paternal chromosomes
E. none of the above
Question 5
When we say that an organism is haploid, we mean that ____________.
A. its cells have two sets of chromosomes
B. it has one half of a chromosome
C. its cells have a single set of chromosomes
D. its cells each have one chromosome
E. none of the above
Question 6 text
Synapsis occurs during ___________.
A. prophase II
B. anaphase I
C. cytokinesis
D. prophase I
E. metaphase I
Question 7
In a diploid cell containing 10 chromosomes, meiosis results in the formation of daughter cells containing ______________.
A. 40
B. 1
C. 20
D. 5
E. 10
Question 8
DNA replication occurs in _______________.
A. prophase of both mitosis and meiosis
B. the S phase of interphase in both somatic and reproductive cells
C. the cytokinesis portion of the cell's life cycle
D. the G1 phase of interphase in reproductive cells only
E. metaphase of meiosis only
Question 9
A karyotype is _________________.
A. a method of identifying crossover events
B. the physical traits a person has
C. a list of all the genes a person carries
D. a photograph of all of an individual's chromosomes
E. all the possible gametes a person can produce
Question 10
The phase of mitosis during which the chromosomes move toward separate poles of the cell is _________________.
A. metaphase
B. prophase
C. anaphase
D. prometaphase
E. telophase
Question 11
If an intestinal cell of a grasshopper contains 24 chromosomes, a grasshopper's sperm would have _____________.
A. 6
B. 24
C. 12
D. 48
E. 3
Question 12
At the end of telophase I of meiosis and cytokinesis, there are ______________.
A. four diploid cells
B. two haploid cells
C. two diploid cells
D. one haploid ovum and three polar bodies
E. four haploid cells
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