Cells Crossword Puzzle

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Cells Crossword Puzzle

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  • 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