Chapter 8 Note Guide Part II
Name:
1. How do Prokaryotes (bacteria) reproduce?
2. Draw the correct shape of chromosome in the bacteria (prokaryote) cell and in the cheek cell (eukaryotic)
Cheek Cell
Bacteria Cell
3. What are the three main phases of the cell cycle?
I.
II.
III.
4. What happens in each stage of interphase?
Stage of Interphase
What happens in cell
G1
S
G2
5. The cell spends most of its time in what phase of the cell cycle?
6. What is mitosis?
7. What is cytokinesis?
8. What is the function of a spindle fiber?
Label the spindle
fibers in the
picture to the right
9. Draw what the cell looks like in each stage of mitosis and write below the drawing what is happening in the
Telophase
cell.
Anaphase
Metaphase
Prophase
What is happening in cell:
What is happening in cell:
What is happening in cell:
What is happening in cell:
10. How are mitosis and meiosis different from one another in terms of what type of cell is created?
11. Where does meiosis occur?
12. What is a tetrad?
13. What is crossing over? Why does it happen?
14. How many and what kind of cells does meiosis I produce?
15. Draw what the cell looks like just before Meiosis I is finished.
16. How many and what kind of cells are produced during Meiosis II?
17. Draw what the cell looks like just before Meiosis II is finished.
18. In males, how many sperm will Meiosis produce?
19. In females, how many eggs does Meiosis produce?
20. What is a polar body (listen for the answer).