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Chapter 11 Class: BIOL - Biology 1 - Introduction; Subject: Biology / Biological Sciences; University: Quinnipiac University; Term: Forever 1989;
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TERM 1
DEFINITION 1 A centriole is a barrel-shaped cell structure found in most animal eukaryotic cells, though absent in higher plants and most fungi. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) belong to a group of protein kinases originally discovered as being involved in the regulation of the cell cycle. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 Cytokinesis, from the greek cyto- (cell) and kinesis (motion, movement), is the process in which the cytoplasm of a single eukaryotic cell is divided to form two daughter cells. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 In biology, meiosis (pronounced ) is a process of nal division in which the number of chromosomes per cell is cut in half. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Mitosis is the process by which a eukaryotic cell separates the chromosomes in its cell nucleus into two identical sets in two nuclei.
TERM 6
DEFINITION 6 A chromatid is one among the two identical copies of DNA making up a replicated chromosome, which are joined at their centromeres, for the process of cell division (mitosis or meiosis). TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 The term chiasma comes from the Greek , which is related to the Greek letter and means "crossing". TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 The kinetochore (pronounced: knt'kr) is the protein structure on chromosomes where the spindle fibers attach during division to pull the chromosomes apart.