General Biology Worksheet 4

Units 4 and 5

Matching: match the term to the description

A. Prophase

B. Interphase

C. Telophase

D. Metaphase

E. Anaphase

_____ 1. The sister chromatids are moving apart.

_____ 9. The chromosomes are moving towards
_____ 2. The nucleolus begins to fade from view.
the poles of
the cell.
_____ 3. A new nuclear membrane is forming
_____ 10. Chromatids line up along the equator.
around the chromosomes.
_____ 4. The cytoplasm of the cell is being
divided.

_____ 11. The spindle is formed.

_____ 12. Chromosomes are not visible.

_____ 5. The chromosomes become invisible.

_____ 13. Cytokinesis is completed.
_____ 6. The chromosomes are located at the
equator
of the cell.

_____ 14. The cell plate is completed.

_____ 15. Chromosomes are replicated.

_____ 7. The nuclear membrane begins to fade

from view.

_____ 16. The reverse of prophase.

_____ 8. The division (cleavage) furrow appears. _____ 17. The organization phase
.
Fill in the blank: Some will be used more than once.
A. Prophase
D. Metaphase
G. Chromatid
J. Spindle fiber
B. Interphase
E. Anaphase
H. Cytokinesis
K. Cell plate
C. Telophase
F. Centromere
I. Mitosis
________________18. What phase are daughter
cells in as a result of mitosis?
________________19. During what phase of mitosis
do centromeres divide and the
chromosomes move toward their
respective poles?
________________20. What is the phase where
chromatin condenses to form
chromosomes?
________________21. What is the name of the
structure that connects the two
chromatids?
________________22. In a chromosome pair
connected by a centromere, what
is each individual chromosome
called?

________________23. What are the two parts of cell

division?
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________________24. What structure forms in
prophase along which the
chromosomes move?
________________25. Which phase of mitosis is the
last phase that chromatids are
together?
________________26. Which phase of the cell cycle
is characterized by a non-dividing
cell?
________________27. What structure is produced
when protein fibers radiate from

development between mitotic

divisions?

centrioles?

________________28. What forms across the center

of a cell near the end of telophase? ________________30. What is the phase where
cytokinesis occurs?
________________29. The period of cell growth and

The diagram below shows cells in various phases of the cell cycle. Note the cells are not arranged in
the order in which the cell cycle occurs. Use the diagram to answer questions 1-7.

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Cells A & F show an early and a late stage of the same phase of

the cell cycle. What phase is it?

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Which cell is in metaphase?

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Which cell is in the first phase of M phase (mitosis)?

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In cell A, what structure is labeled X?

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List the diagrams in order from first to last in the cell cycle.

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Are the cells depicted plant or animal cells?

a. Explain your answer.

b. If it were the other type of cell what would be different in the

diagrams?
____________________7.

What is the longest phase of the cell cycle?

8. Why is mitosis important?

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9. Predict what would happen if an individual had faulty spindle fibers.
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10. Predict what would happen if cytokinesis was skipped.

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11. State two significance of meiosis.
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12. State two ways in which meiosis generates variation.

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13. Calculate how many differnet types of gametes are possible due to independent assortment,
from an organism which has a diploid number of 14?
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14. Using a germline cell with a diploid number of 3, illustrate how the processes of meiotic and
mitotic nuclear division are different.

Mendelian Inheritance
15. What is mendels first law of inheritace?
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16. What is mendels second law of inheritance?
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17. Define the following terms
i.

Homozygous
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ii.

Heterozygous
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iii.

Diploid
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iv.

Haploid
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v.

Genotype
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vi.

Phenotype
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18. List and define three types of non-mendelian inheritance.

i.

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ii.

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iii.

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19. When mendel crossed pure breeding pea plants that have purple flowers with pure breeding
pea plants that have white flowers, all the offsprings had purple flowers. When these offsprings
were interbred, the resulting offspings had purple flowers or white flowers in a 3:1 ratio. Using
genetic diagrams explain the observations from mendels cross.

20. In one of Mendels experiments, he observed the simultaneous inheritance of seed shape and
seed colour in dihybrid cross of pea plants.
I. Describe how the genotype of a organism which shows the dominant phenotypes of seed
shape and colour (round yellow seed) could be determined.

II.

Two heterozygous dominant pea plants for round yellow seed were crossed. If 256
offsprings were produced, calculate how many offsprings belonged to the different
phenotypic categories.

Information Flow
21. What is a gene?
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22. Outline how information in DNA is used to form proteins.