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Reading Questions for Chapter 6

Name:

1. What are sex cells (sperm and egg) called?

2. A human cell with 46 chromosomes is


a. Haploid
b. Diploid
c. Triploid
d. Hexaploid

3. If you have the gene sequence for the type A blood group on one chromosome in a pair
AND you have the sequence for the type B blood group on the other chromosome in the
pair, what type blood do you have?

4. Which phase of the cell cycle is the first stage of interphase?

5. What do we call the “physical separation of the cytoplasmic components into two
daughter cells.”

6. In which phase of mitosis do chromosomes condense and become visible?

7. What is the plane at which the chromosomes align during metaphase?

8. Which cell cycle checkpoint ensures that the mitotic spindle is correctly formed?

9. What is an oncogene called before it is mutated?

10. Mutated forms of what gene have been found in more than half of all human tumors?

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