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Cell Division Worksheet

This document provides information about cell division and the cell cycle. It includes a table to fill in the phases of mitosis and their events. There are also vocabulary terms to match with their definitions related to cell division and the cell cycle. Finally, there is a passage that describes how cytokinesis, the final stage of the cell cycle, differs between plant and animal cells.

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Cell Division Worksheet

This document provides information about cell division and the cell cycle. It includes a table to fill in the phases of mitosis and their events. There are also vocabulary terms to match with their definitions related to cell division and the cell cycle. Finally, there is a passage that describes how cytokinesis, the final stage of the cell cycle, differs between plant and animal cells.

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Name Date Class

Cell Division
Understanding Main Ideas
Fill in the blanks in the table below.

Phases of Mitosis

Phase Event
Prophase 1.
2. Chromosomes attach to spindle fibers.
Anaphase 3.
4. New nuclear envelope forms.

Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.

5. Which stage of the cell cycle usually lasts the longest?

6. During which stage of the cell cycle does DNA replication occur?

7. During which stage of the cell cycle does the cell membrane pinch
the cell into two?

Building Vocabulary
Match each term with its definition by writing the letter of the correct definition in the
right column on the line beside the term in the left column.

8. ____ interphase a. regular sequence of growth and division that cells undergo

9. ____ mitosis b. first stage of the cell cycle

10. ____ cell cycle c. process in which DNA is copied

11. ____ cytokinesis d. stage of the cell cycle during which the cells nucleus divides

12. ____ replication e. doubled rod of condensed chromatin

13. _____ chromosome f. final stage of the cell cycle


Name Date Class

Cell Division
Read the passage and study the figures below. Then use a separate sheet of paper to
answer the questions that follow.

Recall that all plant cells have a rigid wall. Because of this rigid cell wall, cytokinesis in plant cells is
different from cytokinesis in animal cells. Study the figures below to see how cytokinesis differs in
plant cells and animal cells.

In animal cells, as daughter cells pinch into two cells, there is a space between the cells called a furrow.
as the furrow gets increasingly narrower, the spindle fibers are pressed into a tight bundle, called a
stembody. The stembody eventually is cut in two as the new cell membranes fuse together.

In plant cells, pockets of cell-wall material, called vesicles, line up across the middle of the cell.
the vesicles fuse together in two sheets to form new cell walls and cell membranes between the
daughter cells.

1. How does the furrow form in an animal cell? Whats the furrows role
in cell division?
2. What causes the stembody to form in an animal cell? What happens
to the stembody when the cell divides?
3. What are vesicles? Which parts of the plant cell do vesicles develop
into?
4. If you observed a cell under a microscope during cytokinesis, how
could you tell whether it was a plant cell or an animal cell?

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