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