Cell Division Crossword Puzzle

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Across1. Another name for a sex cell or gamete or sperm

or egg. These have only one set of unpaired chromosomes.

3. One of a pair of chromosomes duplicated during the cell cycle.

4. All eukaryotic sells other than sex cells.8. A type of cell division in eukaryotic cells that

produces genetically different sex cells. In this process the number of chromosomes decreases to half the original number through two divisions of the cell nucleus. Sexual cell reproduction.

10. Chromosomes that have the same sequence of genes and the same structure as one another.

11. A sex cell, a sperm or an egg, These have only one set of unpaired chromosomes.

Down2. The division of the cytoplasm of a cell.3. The life cycle of a cell. For somatic cells it

includes interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis. For sex cells in includes interphase, meiosis, and cytokinesis.

5. The reproduction, asexual or sexual, of cells. This term includes binary fission, mitosis, and meiosis.

6. The portion of the cell cycle just before mitosis or meiosis where chromosomes are copied.

7. A coiled structure in the nucleus of cells that contains DNA. Each species has a set number of these in pairs.

9. A type of cell division in eukaryotic cells by which two genetically identical daughter cells are produced from one parent cell with no change in chromosome number. Asexual cell reproduction.