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Cell Division Practice Test

____ 1. Which of the cell stages is not actually a part of mitosis? (HINT: It’s the “normal”, not dividing stage...)
a. Interphase c. Metaphase e. Telophase
b. Prophase d. Anaphase
____ 2. When is the DNA copied? (When does a monovalent chromosome become a bivalent chromosome?)
a. Interphase. c. Metaphase. e. Telophase
b. Prophase. d. Anaphase
____ 3. Imagine you are observing a cell that has 8 bivalent chromosomes lined up SINGLE FILE in the middle.
You know that the organism really has 16 chromosomes. What stage are you observing? (HINT: If the
chromosomes were lined up as 8 PAIRS in the middle, it would be before the first cell division of
meiosis...)
a. Metaphase of mitosis c. Metaphase II of meiosis
b. Metaphase I of meiosis
____ 4. Imagine that you are looking at a cell where the chromosomes are lined up in PAIRS in the middle of the
cell. What stage is the cell in?
a. Metaphase of mitosis c. Metaphase II of meiosis
b. Metaphase I of meiosis
____ 5. If you looked at the chromsomes of a pollen grain that came from a 22-chromosome plant, how many
chromosomes would you see and would they be bivalent or monovalent? (HINTS: Pollen is a GAMETE.
At the end of meiosis, what are the cells like?)
a. 11; monovalent c. 22; monovalent
b. 11; bivalent d. 22; bivalent
____ 6. _________________ grow _________________ that attach to the _______________ of bivalent
chromosomes
a. centrioles; centromeres; spindle fibers
b. centromeres; centrioles; spindle fibers
c. centrioles; spindle fibers; centromeres
d. centromeres, spindle fibers; centrioles
____ 7. Cells taken from the leaf or roots of a plant are _________________.
a. haploid b. diploid c. polyploid
____ 8. When a baby is growing in its mother’s uterus, its cells are dividing by
a. mitosis b. meiosis
____ 9. Sperm, eggs, and pollen are all examples of
a. haploid cells. d. both a and b
b. gametes. e. a, b, AND c
c. zygotes.
____ 10. The nucleus disappears and the chromatin twists to form bivalent chromosomes during
a. Interphase d. Anaphase
b. Prophase e. Telophase
c. Metaphase
____ 11. Describe the chromosomes in Anaphase II.
a. haploid. d. bivalent
b. diploid. e. More than one of the above
c. monovalent.

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____ 12. During synapsis of Prophase I, the chromosomes

a. separate into two new nuclei.
b. move to the equator of the cell.
c. cross over with their homologous partner.
d. separate from their sister chromatids.
____ 13. Compare Prophase I of Meiosis and Prophase of Mitosis.
a. There are 23 monovalent chromosomes in Prophase I and 46 monovalent in
Prophase of Mitosis.
b. There are 23 bivalent chromosomes in Prophase I and 46 bivalent in Prophase of
Mitosis.
c. There are 46 monovalent chromosomes in Prophase I and 46 bivalent in Prophase of
Mitosis.
d. There are 46 bivalent chromosomes in both stages
____ 14. Which of the following correctly compares mitosis and meiosis?
a. Meiosis leads to four genetically unique cells with bivalent chromosomes.
b. Mitosis leads to two genetically unique cells with bivalent chromosomes.
c. Meiosis leads to four identical cells with monovalent chromosomes.
d. Mitosis leads to two identical cells with monovalent chromosomes.
____ 15. The continual shortening of telomeres leads to
a. progeria. c. cancer.
b. senescence and apoptosis.
____ 16. Cancer cells produce
a. contact inhibition. c. HPV.
b. telomerase. d. p53.
____ 17. Uncontrolled mitosis of cells that will NOT move to other areas of the body describes
a. cancer. c. benign tumors.
b. malignant tumors. d. both a and b

KJ had a friend who died from skin cancer after it spread to her stomach. Answer the following questions
about her circumstances.

____ 18. Eight years before her death, this friend had a mole removed from her back. Apparently the mole was
a. benign b. malignant
____ 19. The doctor who removed the mole unintentionally left some cells behind. Unfortunately, these cells
__________________ to her stomach.
a. malignified b. metastasized c. telomerized
____ 20. Odds say that the cancer cells probably had a malfunctioning
a. telomerase gene. d. tumor supressor gene.
b. p53 gene. e. Any or all of the above.
c. proto-oncogene.
____ 21. A tumor grew in her stomach because her cancer cells
a. activated her tumor supressor gene.
b. stopped the release of telomerase.
c. lacked contact inhibition.
d. turned an oncogene into a proto-oncogene

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____ 22. The guardian angel gene

a. stops mitosis if there are problems. d. both a and b
b. is an oncogene. e. both a and c
c. is mutated in most cancers

____ 23. (HINT: Notice the PAIRS of chromosomes...) The cell whose DNA was sampled for the above
karyotype must have been
a. halpoid- a sex cell. c. haploid- a somatic (body) cell.
b. diploid- a sex cell. d. diploid- a somatic (body) cell.
____ 24. The individual from the above karyotype was a
a. trisomic male. c. normal male.
b. trisomic female. d. normal female.
____ 25. Which type of reproduction does the following statement describe: It is advantageous because it
requires little energy and is FAST, but it does NOT produce genetic variation.
a. Sexual Reproduction c. Cloning
b. Asexual Reproduction d. Both b and c
____ 26. Crossing-over, mutations, and random fertilization together are events in ____________ reproduction
that lead to _______________.
a. asexual; genetic variation c. asexual; independent assortment
b. sexual; genetic variation d. sexual; independent assortment

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