Unit 4: Cell Communication (part 2)
16 review questions with answers for Unit 4: Cell Communication (part 2). Read them here, or play the set as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Phase where chromatin condenses into chromosomes and spindle forms?
- Cyclin
- Kinetochore
- Metaphase
- ProphaseRight answer
All 16 questions and answers
Phase where chromatin condenses into chromosomes and spindle forms?
Answer: Prophase
Phase where chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell?
Answer: Metaphase
Phase where sister chromatids are pulled apart to opposite poles?
Answer: Anaphase
Phase where two new nuclear envelopes form?
Answer: Telophase
Programmed cell death if a cell fails a checkpoint?
Answer: Apoptosis
Protein whose concentration fluctuates to regulate the cell cycle?
Answer: Cyclin
Enzyme that is active only when attached to a cyclin?
Answer: CDK (Cyclin-Dependent Kinase)
Mass of cells caused by uncontrolled cell division (benign or malignant)?
Answer: Tumor
A membrane receptor that acts as a gate when a ligand binds?
Answer: Ligand-gated Ion Channel
A membrane receptor that works with the help of a G protein?
Answer: G Protein-Coupled Receptor (GPCR)
Enzymes that remove phosphate groups from proteins (turning them "off")?
Answer: Protein Phosphatases
A chain of protein kinases, each phosphorylating and activating the next?
Answer: Phosphorylation Cascade
Identical copies of a chromosome held together by a centromere?
Answer: Sister Chromatids
The structure made of microtubules that controls chromosome movement?
Answer: Mitotic Spindle
The specific protein structure on the centromere where microtubules attach?
Answer: Kinetochore
The cell enters this non-dividing "resting" state if it fails the G1 checkpoint?
Answer: G0 Phase
Play it as a class game
Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options are other answers from the same set.