Mitosis and Cell Cycle
  • 1. The simple meaning of synthesis is "___"
A) to make
B) to die
C) to hide
D) to divide
  • 2. The sugar in DNA is ___
A) deoxyribose
B) deoxine
C) ribose
D) deribose
  • 3. The sugar in RNA is __
A) ribose
B) deoxine
C) deribose
D) deoxyribose
  • 4. Cyto- means ____
A) DNA
B) cut
C) RNA
D) cell
  • 5. The letters for the 4 bases of DNA are_____
A) UCGC
B) AUCG
C) ATCG
D) ATUG
  • 6. The building blocks or monomers of DNA and RNA are called ___
A) nucleotides
B) helixes
C) amino acids
D) base pairs
  • 7. The building blocks of proteins are __
A) amino acids
B) fats
C) sugars
D) nucleotides
  • 8. What is this a picture of?
A) DNA
B) RNA
C) an animal cell
D) a plant cell
  • 9. What is this a picture of?
A) a DNA helix
B) a nucleotide
C) a cell
D) RNA stran
  • 10. What is letter A?
A) A phosphate in DNA
B) A sugar in DNA
C) A DNA base
D) protein
  • 11. What is letter C?
A) a phosphate in DNA
B) A DNA base
C) a lipid
D) a sugar in DNA
  • 12. What is letter B?
A) a DNA base
B) a carbohydrate
C) a phosphate in DNA
D) a DNA sugar
  • 13. This image is sometimes called a ___
A) cell cycle
B) phase of mitosis
C) single strand
D) double helix
  • 14. How might you know that this is DNA?
A) it is colorful
B) it has 1 strand
C) it contains nitrogen
D) it has 2 strands
  • 15. What does this diagram represent?
A) lipids
B) photosynthesis
C) Mitosis
D) Cell Cycle
  • 16. What does G1 stand for?
A) gestation
B) cell growth
C) good cell
D) gray area
  • 17. What does S stand for?
A) strong cell
B) cytoplasm
C) DNA synthesis
D) slow process
  • 18. What does G2 stand for?
A) first growth phase
B) growth to prepare for mitosis
C) all of these
D) good cell
  • 19. What does M stand for?
A) mitosis
B) muscle
C) milk
D) mild growth
  • 20. Cell division occurs in mitosis.
A) True
B) False
  • 21. Cell division during DNA synthesis.
A) False
B) True
  • 22. Why does the cell cycle have "checkpoints"?
A) to give the cell a chance to divide
B) To help prevent cancer and "bad" mutations
C) none of these
D) to produce more mitochondria
  • 23. What is NOT happening during Interphase?
A) growth
B) rest
C) DNA replication
D) cell division (mitosis)
  • 24. When 2 daughter cells are produced, they are ____ to the original parent cell.
A) completely different from each other
B) not identical genetically
C) identical genetically
  • 25. Chromosomes are actually ___
A) coiled up cytoplasm
B) lipids
C) carbohydrates
D) coiled up DNA
  • 26. In order, what are the phases of mitosis?
A) none-of these
B) telophase-prophase-metaphase-anaphase
C) metaphase-prophase-teophase-anaphase
D) prophase-metaphase-anaphase-telophase
  • 27. The phase of mitosis when the chromosomes line up in the "middle".
A) prophase
B) metaphase
C) metaphase
D) anaphase
  • 28. The phase of mitosis when the chromosomes are pulled "away" from each other
A) metaphase
B) prophase
C) telophase
D) anaphase
  • 29. The phase of mitosis when the nucleus starts to disappear and chromosomes condense
A) metaphase
B) anaphase
C) prophase
D) telophase
  • 30. What phase of mitosis does this show?
A) telophase
B) anaphase
C) all of these
D) metaphase
  • 31. What process is happening in this picture?
A) DNA synthesis
B) carbohydrate synthesis
C) cytokinesis
D) RNA replication
  • 32. What will be result after this process?
A) 2 identical daughter cells are produced
B) One full grown new cell is produced
C) 2 completely different cells are produced
D) all of these
  • 33. When is DNA replication?
A) during G0
B) during prophase
C) all of these
D) during Interphase
  • 34. Which stage of the Cell Cycle is the longest?
A) Interphase
B) prophase
C) mitosis
D) cytokinesis
  • 35. Cytokinesis means that the cell ____
A) becomes cancer
B) splits into 2
C) mutates
D) disappears
  • 36. Cytokinesis occurs after what phase of mitosis?
A) anaphase
B) telophase
C) metaphase
D) none of these
  • 37. What type of cell is this?
A) animal cell
B) cancer cell
C) plant cell
D) bacteria cell
  • 38. What type of cell is this?
A) cancer cell
B) bacteria cell
C) animal cell
D) plant cell
  • 39. the process by which new body cells are formed for growth or repair
A) DNA replication
B) cancer
C) mitosis
D) meiosis
  • 40. Prokaryotes are always ____ cells.
A) plant
B) bacteria
C) animal
D) all of these
  • 41. Eukaryotes are always ___cells
A) only animal
B) plant or animal
C) only plant
D) bacteria
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