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NEET UG Cell Cycle and Cell Division — practice questions — page 2

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Before or during division?Read the answer and worked solution →Reading the cycleRead the answer and worked solution →Flip and pair: term with meaningRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the odd one outRead the answer and worked solution →Assertion and reason: the cycleRead the answer and worked solution →Tap everything that happens before the M phaseRead the answer and worked solution →Two true, one falseRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the cell theory statementRead the answer and worked solution →Order a full turn of the cycleRead the answer and worked solution →Human cells growing in culture complete one cell cycle in about how long?Read the answer and worked solution →Yeast can pass through its whole cell cycle in roughly how much time?Read the answer and worked solution →In a 24 hour human cell cycle, how long does actual cell division last?Read the answer and worked solution →Interphase takes up what share of the total cell cycle duration?Read the answer and worked solution →Nuclear division that separates daughter chromosomes is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which phase is the interval between mitosis and the start of DNA replication?Read the answer and worked solution →If a cell holds 2C DNA before S phase, how much does it hold after S phase?Read the answer and worked solution →A diploid (2n) cell finishes S phase. What is its chromosome number now?Read the answer and worked solution →An onion root tip cell has 16 chromosomes. How many does it have right after S phase?Read the answer and worked solution →In animal cells, the centriole duplicates during which phase?Read the answer and worked solution →Proteins needed for mitosis are made while growth continues in which phase?Read the answer and worked solution →Cells that stop dividing leave G1 and enter which stage?Read the answer and worked solution →Which adult animal cells do not appear to undergo division?Read the answer and worked solution →What best describes a cell sitting in the G0 stage?Read the answer and worked solution →In which animals do haploid cells divide by mitosis?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is mitosis also called equational division?Read the answer and worked solution →Which event marks the start of mitotic prophase?Read the answer and worked solution →Microtubules radiating out from each centrosome in prophase are called what?Read the answer and worked solution →At the end of mitotic prophase, which structure can no longer be seen?Read the answer and worked solution →Chromosome morphology is most easily studied at which stage of mitosis?Read the answer and worked solution →Small disc-shaped structures on centromeres where spindle fibres attach are called what?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Before or during division?

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Items
  1. Item
    DNA is replicated
    Category
    Before division
  2. Item
    The cell grows
    Category
    Before division
  3. Item
    Chromosomes condense in prophase
    Category
    During division
  4. Item
    The cell physically splits
    Category
    During division
Categories
  1. Item
    Before division
  2. Item
    During division
Preparation, then the act itself. Source: syllabus Biology, Cell Cycle and Cell Division.

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Reading the cycle

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Questions
  1. Question
    Which phase copies the DNA?
    Choices
    1. G1
    2. S
    3. M
    Correct choice
    S
  2. Question
    Which phase is the actual division?
    Choices
    1. S
    2. G2
    3. M
    Correct choice
    M
  3. Question
    A sexually reproducing organism begins as a
    Choices
    1. zygote
    2. gamete
    3. spore
    Correct choice
    zygote
Naming the parts. Source: syllabus Biology, Cell Cycle and Cell Division.

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Flip and pair: term with meaning

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Matching pairs
  1. A
    Cell cycle
    B
    one division to the next
  2. A
    Interphase
    B
    the preparation period
  3. A
    M phase
    B
    the division itself
  4. A
    Zygote
    B
    the single cell an organism starts from
The cycle's vocabulary. Source: syllabus Biology, Cell Cycle and Cell Division.

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