Reproduction and Growth

6th Grade

Instructions

You have 30 seconds on a piece of paper to answer the following questions. When you hear this sound put down your pencil.

Whoever has the most correct answers at the end will win.

Question 1:

The stages all organisms go through.

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Answer: life cycle

Question 2:

The stage of mitosis where a cell spends most of its cycle.

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Answer: interphase

Question 3:

The division of a nucleus into two, while a cell is dividing into two identical cells.

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Answer: mitosis

Question 4:

When new organisms are produced from one parent.

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Answer: asexual reproduction

Question 5:

When new organisms are produced from two parents.

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Answer: reproduction

Question 6:

The male sex cell.

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Answer: sperm

Question 7:

The female sex cell.

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Answer: egg

Question 8:

The process in which the nucleus of a sex cell divides twice.

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Answer: meiosis

Question 9:

Time of growth and time of dividing a cell.

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Answer: cell cycle

Question 10:

The process of an egg and a sperm joining.

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Answer: fertilization

Question 11:

What’s the name for a fertilized egg cell

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Answer: zygote

Question 12:

When does the process of mitosis end?

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Answer: two new cells are formed

Question 13:

How many chromosomes does a human sperm or egg contain?

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Answer: 23 chromosomes

Question 14:

How many chromosomes does a human body cell contain?

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Answer: 46 chromosomes

Question 15:

In mitosis, how is the reproduced cell like the original cell?

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Answer: they are the same

Question 16:

True or False?Cell division is a continuous process.

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Answer: True

Question 17:

The German scientist use what to help him observe the different phases of mitosis.

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Answer: dye in an onion

Question 18:

Walther Fleming determined the phases of mitosis from an onion and placed them in ___________.

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Answer: sequence or order

Question 19:

The phase of mitosis that the chromosomes make copies of themselves.

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Answer: interphase

Question 20:

The phase of mitosis that the membrane around the nucleus disappear.

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Answer: prophase

Question 21:

The phase of mitosis that the chromosomes split apart and travel to opposite sides.

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Answer: anaphase

Question 23:

The phase of mitosis that the cytoplasm divides and two new cells are formed.

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Answer: telophase

Question 24:

Cells are either in the growth or dividing stage of the cell cycle. Which stage is a new cell in?

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Answer: growth

Question 25:

In the life cycle of humans, what follows the childhood stage?

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Answer: adolescence

Question 26:

When animals change from one form to a completely different form during their life cycle, it is called ________.

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Answer: metamorphosis

Question 27:

Any group of diseases in which cells divide faster and more often than a normal cell is called ________.

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Answer: cancer

Question 28:

In asexual reproduction how is the off-spring compared to the parent?

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Answer: they are exactly alike

Question 29:

The process that a living thing uses to produce more of its own kind.

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Answer: reproduction

Question 30:

Other than Rudolph, name one of Santa’s reindeers.

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Answer: Donder, Cupid, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Blitzen, Vixen

The End

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