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Self Assessment Questions for Lesson 3

Mitosis

by Dr Jamie Love Creative Commons Licence 2002 - 2005

1

List, in order, the four stages of mitosis and tell me what their prefix means in Greek.

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2

What happens in prophase - including late prophase or prometaphase?

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3

What are the characteristics of metaphase and anaphase?

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4

If a cell enters prophase with 46 chromosomes how many chromosomes does the cell have at metaphase? (Notice I am asking for the chromosome count per cell NOT per nuclei.)

How many at anaphase?

At telophase?

How many chromosomes will each daughter cell have after cytokinesis?

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5

What is the importance of mitosis?

Why do the centrosomes, spindles, kinetochores, etc. go to such trouble to move and break up chromosomes?

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6

"Dolly" the sheep is called a clone. Why?

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