
Name ______________________________________________ Date _______________________ Hour ________
Bio Unit 4a
Ch. 11: Cellular Growth & Division Study Guide
1. Fill in [supply or demand]:
The surface area is the ______________ of the cell. The volume is the _____________ of the cell.
2. As cells grow larger, what happens to volume and surface area of a cell?
3. Why do cells divide?
4. What is The Cell Cycle?
Complete the following with (I) Interphase, (M) Mitosis or (C) Cytokinesis.
5. ______ Stage of The Cell Cycle dealing mainly with cell growth
6. ______ Stage of nuclear division
7. ______ Stage where division of cytoplasm occurs
8. ______ Stage where DNA is duplicated
9. ______ 2 stages where the cell is actively dividing
10. ______ Stage that the cell stays in the longest
11. ______ Chromosomes become visible
12. Label the outside of the diagram below with the following titles:
[Cell Growth, Cell Division, DNA Replication and Preparation for Mitosis]
Then label the inside of the diagram with the following phases:
[G1, S, G2, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase and Cytokinesis]
13. What does the letter G stand for with the phases G1 and G2 of Interphase? _________________