Cells Crossword Puzzle

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