2. Reproduction and Growth 6 th Grade

3. 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.

4. Question 1: The stages all organisms go through.

5. Times Up Answer: life cycle

6. Question 2: The stage of mitosis where a cell spends most of its cycle.

7. Times Up Answer: interphase

8. Question 3: The division of a nucleus into two, while a cell is dividing into two identical cells.

9. Times Up Answer: mitosis

10. Question 4: When new organisms are produced from one parent.

11. Times Up Answer: asexual reproduction

12. Question 5: When new organisms are produced from two parents.

13. Times Up Answer: reproduction

14. Question 6: The male sex cell.

15. Times Up Answer: sperm

16. Question 7: The female sex cell.

17. Times Up Answer: egg

18. Question 8: The process in which the nucleus of a sex cell divides twice.

19. Times Up Answer: meiosis

20. Question 9: Time of growth and time of dividing a cell.

21. Times Up Answer: cell cycle

22. Question 10: The process of an egg and a sperm joining.

23. Times Up Answer: fertilization

24. Question 11: What’s the name for a fertilized egg cell

25. Times Up Answer: zygote

26. Question 12: When does the process of mitosis end?

27. Times Up Answer: two new cells are formed

28. Question 13: How many chromosomes does a human sperm or egg contain?

29. Times Up Answer: 23 chromosomes

30. Question 14: How many chromosomes does a human body cell contain?

31. Times Up Answer: 46 chromosomes

32. Question 15: In mitosis, how is the reproduced cell like the original cell?

33. Times Up Answer: they are the same

34. Question 16: True or False? Cell division is a continuous process.

35. Times Up Answer: True

36. Question 17: The German scientist use what to help him observe the different phases of mitosis.

37. Times Up Answer: dye in an onion

38. Question 18: Walther Fleming determined the phases of mitosis from an onion and placed them in ___________.

39. Times Up Answer: sequence or order

40. Question 19: The phase of mitosis that the chromosomes make copies of themselves.

41. Times Up Answer: interphase

42. Question 20: The phase of mitosis that the membrane around the nucleus disappear.

43. Times Up Answer: prophase

44. Question 21: The phase of mitosis that the chromosomes split apart and travel to opposite sides.

45. Times Up Answer: anaphase

46. Question 23: The phase of mitosis that the cytoplasm divides and two new cells are formed.

47. Times Up Answer: telophase

48. Question 24: Cells are either in the growth or dividing stage of the cell cycle. Which stage is a new cell in?

49. Times Up Answer: growth

50. Question 25: In the life cycle of humans, what follows the childhood stage?

51. Times Up Answer: adolescence

52. Question 26: When animals change from one form to a completely different form during their life cycle, it is called ________.

53. Times Up Answer: metamorphosis

54. Question 27: Any group of diseases in which cells divide faster and more often than a normal cell is called ________.

55. Times Up Answer: cancer

56. Question 28: In asexual reproduction how is the off-spring compared to the parent?

57. Times Up Answer: they are exactly alike

58. Question 29: The process that a living thing uses to produce more of its own kind.

59. Times Up Answer: reproduction

60. Question 30: Other than Rudolph, name one of Santa’s reindeers.

61. Times Up Answer: Donder, Cupid, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Blitzen, Vixen

62. The End Thanks for playing