Mitosis and Meiosis Study Guide

Mitosis and Meiosis Study Guide Answer the question on your own paper or in your journal! 

1. Know the vocabulary terms from Chapter 4 Section 3 (98-101) and Chapter 5 Section 3 (126-133). 2. What is binary fission and in what types of organisms does it occur?

3. Why is it important that cells produce new cells? 4. In what stage of the cell cycle are the organelles and chromosomes copied? 5. What does mitosis ensure? 6. What are chromatids? 7. Where are chromatids attached? 8. How is the cytokinesis of animal cells different from plant cells? 9. What is a cell plate? 10. Do prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells have more DNA? 11. What does copying chromosomes prior to cell division ensure? 12. How is asexual reproduction similar to how body cells reproduce? 13. Explain the difference between sex cells and body cells. 14. What material controls the activities of cells? 15. What is the difference in the shape of bacterial DNA and human DNA? 16. Be ready to identify the stages of Mitosis in pictures. Look at pages 100-101. 17. What happens in prophase? 18. What happens in metaphase? 19. What happens in anaphase? 20. What happens in telophase? 21. What carries the genes that determine the sex of an organism? 22. How is mitosis similar to a type of asexual reproduction? 23. Genes are located on ______. 24. What does gamete mean? 25. How many steps are in Meiosis? 26. Explain what happens in the first four steps of Meiosis. 27. What is the end result of the first four steps of Meiosis? (# of cells and # of chromosomes) 28. What happens in the last four steps of Meiosis? 29. What is the end result of the complete process of Meiosis? (# of cells and # of chromosomes) 30. Why do males have more sex-linked disorders than females? 31. The cell _____ is the life stages of a cell. 32. Write the sex chromosomes for a male and a female. 33. What is the difference between mitosis and meiosis? 34. Define haploid cells? 35. What types of cells are haploid? 36. Define diploid cells? 37. What types of cells are considered to be diploid? 38. What is genetic counseling? 39. If an organism has 40 chromosomes in its body cells, how many chromosomes are in the sex cells? 40. If an organism has 35 chromosomes in its sex cells, how many are in the body cells?

Chapter 9 Study Guide

1. Know the nine vocabulary terms from this chapter. 2. Study the foldable we completed in class. 3. Before the 1600’s, what two categories did scientists divide the organisms into? 4. Taxonomists use the ______system to classify living things based on shared characteristics. 5. What are three questions that classifying organisms can help answer? 6. Study the branching diagram in figure 2 on page 223 and make sure to understand how to read it. 7. Who was Carolus Linnaeus? 8. Name the seven levels of classification in order from largest to smallest. 9. What is a scientific name? 10. What two parts of the levels of classification make up the scientific name? 11. How do you write the scientific name in reference to how the words are written? 12. Write the correct scientific names for the following organism:  Asian Elephant  House cat 13. What is a dichotomous key? 14. Will the current classification system ever change? 15. Name and describe the six different kingdoms. 16. What are prokaryotes and eukaryotes? 17. How many kingdoms of bacteria are there? 18. Why are protists placed in their own kingdom? 19. Explain the different ways in which plants, fungi, and animals obtain nutrients. 20. Define autotrophs and heterotrophs. (from lecture)