Cells Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- metaphase : second stage of cell division when chromosomes become attached to spindle fibers
- heterotroph : an organism that gets its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances
- anaphase : the phase of cell division when chromosomes move away from one another to opposite poles of the spindle fibers
- cytokinesis : the cytoplasmic division of a cell at the end of mitosis or meiosis
- centromere : region of a chromosome to which microtubules of the spindles attach
- cellular respiration : the process of breaking sugar into a form that the cell can use as energy.
- centrioles : an organelle near the nucleus in animal cells
- photosynthesis : the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to make foods from carbon dioxide and water
- autotroph : an organism that can form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances
- prophase : the first stage of cell division, before metaphase
- inter phase : the resting phase between successive mitotic division of a cell
- telophase : the final phase of cell division
- mitosis : a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth.
- chloroplast : a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place
- glucose : food for the cell
