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Cell Reproduction

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  1.In what step of meiosis in animal cells do centrioles double and fibers form again?  
  a.   step 2  
  b.   step 5  
  c.   step 3  
  d.   step 4  
  Hint    
      
  2.What do we call the female sex organs?  
  a.   kidneys  
  b.   testes  
  c.   ovaries  
  d.   lungs  
  Hint    
      
  3.What is one way that mitosis in plant cells is different than mitosis in animal cells?  
  a.   Plant cells lack centrioles.  
  b.   the break down of the nuclear membrane  
  c.   duplication of chromosomes into sister chromatids  
  d.   separation of sister chromatids to form two new chromosomes  
  Hint    
      
  4.Eggs and sperm are what type of cell?  
  a.   body cells  
  b.   protists  
  c.   sex cells  
  d.   nerve cells  
  Hint    
      
  5.What do we call each strand of a doubled chromosome?  
  a.   ribosome  
  b.   sister chromatid  
  c.   chloroplast  
  d.   centriole  
  Hint    
      
  6.What type of cell reproduction forms eggs and sperm?  
  a.   meiosis  
  b.   fission  
  c.   budding  
  d.   mitosis  
  Hint    
      
  7.In what step of meiosis in animal cells do fibers move matching chromosomes apart?  
  a.   step 3  
  b.   step 1  
  c.   step 2  
  d.   step 4  
  Hint    
      
  8.In what step of meiosis in animal cells do sister chromatids become attached to fibers from the centrioles for the first time?  
  a.   step 3  
  b.   step 1  
  c.   step 2  
  d.   step 4  
  Hint    
      
  9.What do we call cells that make up the skin, blood, bones, and stomach?  
  a.   sex cells  
  b.   plant cells  
  c.   bacterial cells  
  d.   body cells  
  Hint    
      
  10.In what step of mitosis in animal cells are sister chromatids pulled apart by the fibers attached to the centrioles?  
  a.   step 3  
  b.   step 2  
  c.   step 1  
  d.   step 4  
  Hint    

 
   
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