Mitosis Matching Questions

1. What is mitosis?

2. In order, what are the four main stages of mitosis?

3. What is the name of the stage a cell goes through just prior to mitosis?

4. What is the main event of interphase?

5. What are the two important events of prophane?

6. What is the main event of metaphase?

7. What structure is involved in moving chromosomen during
mitosis?

8. What is the main event of anaphase?

9. What are the two important events of telophase?

10. At the completion of mitosis when the cell dividen, what name
is given to the two new cells

11. You begin life as a one-celled structure called a zygote. What
process then took place over and over to build a body
containing billions of cells?

Answers:
a. Interphase

b. The chromosomes in the nucleus of the cell make identical copies of
themselves.

c. The chromosomes move toward and line up along the center of the cell.

d. The nuclear membrane disappears and the chromosomes become distinct.

e. Mitosis

f. New nuclear envelopes form around each of the two sets of chromosomes,
and the cell divides into two daughter cells.

8. Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase

h. Daughter cells

i. Microtubules

j. Division of the nucleus of the cell (usually followed by division of the cell
itself)

k. The microtubules pull one set of chromosomes to one side of the cell and
an identical set to the opposite side of the cell.