AS Biology AQA Unit 2

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What's the stage in which chromosomes thicken and become visible?
Prophase
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Purpose of centromere
For spindle fibres to attach to and separate sister chromatids
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What does chemotherapy do to the cell cycle of cancerous cells?
Stop replication of DNA and inhibit spindle formation to stop metaphase.
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What is telophase?
When the spindle fibres break down and the nuclear envelope and nucleolus reform
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3 uses of mitosis
Growth, Differentiation and Repair
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Enzyme responsible for breaking hydrogen bonds separating the 2 strands
DNA helicase
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Enzyme responsible for reforming hydrogen bonds and joining nucleotides to a polynucletide strand
DNA polymerase
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Which blood vessel goes to the liver?
Hepatic Artery
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Which blood vessel goes from the small intestine and stomach to the liver?
Hepatic portal vein
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Which blood vessel goes from the kidneys to the heart?
Renal vein
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Meiosis forms 2 daughter cells?
False
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Why is a animal with 37 chromosomes sterile?
It has an uneven number of chromosomes so it cannot be halved or go through meiosis
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Name of non-coding sections of DNA
Introns
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Purpose of centromere

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For spindle fibres to attach to and separate sister chromatids

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What is telophase?

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Really good quiz, my only criticism is that it says unit 2 when it is in fact unit 1.

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