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| What is happening at the surface area of the cell? |
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| food, oxygen, and water are entering while waste is trying to be removed |
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| What depends on the cell's volume? |
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| the rate at which the food and oxygen are being used up and waste products are being produced |
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| surface area to volume ratio |
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| why cells must divide instead of continuing to grow |
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| the process by which the cell divides into two new daughter cells |
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| the production of genetically identical offspring from a single parent |
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| offspring produced by sexual reproduction inherit some of their genetic information from each parent |
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| threadlike structure within the nucleus that contains genetic information that is passed from one generation to the next |
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| substance found in eukaryotic chromosomes that consist of DNA tightly coiled around themselves |
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| one of two idetical "sister" parts of a duplicated chromosome |
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| region of a chromosome where two sister chromotids attach |
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| type of asexual reproduction in which an organism replicates its DNA and divides in half |
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| prokaryotic cell division |
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| period of the cell cycle between cell divisions in which the cell grows |
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| part of eukaryotic cell division during which the cell's nucleus divides |
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| first and longest phase of mitosis |
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| genetic material inside he nucleus condenses and the chromosomes become visible |
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| chromosomes line up across the center of the cell |
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| chromosomes seperate and move to opposite end of the cell |
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| distinct individual chromosomes begin to spread out into a tangle of chromatin |
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| division of the cytoplasm toform to seperate daughter cells |
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| structure in an animal cell that helps to organize cell division |
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| chromosome that is not a sex chromosome |
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| structures that are similar in different species of common ancestry |
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| cell contains two sets of homologous chromosomes |
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| cell that contains only a single set of genes |
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| point at which a neuron can transfer an impulse to another cell |
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| structure containing four chromatids that form during meiosis |
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| process in which homologous chromosomes exchange portins of their chromotids during meiosis |
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