Biomedical Vocab (FUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKK)

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haploid

The sex cells or gametes usually possess only one copy of each chromosome

Diplid

Many eukaryotic cells possess two copies of each chromosome

mitosis

the process that distributes the duplicated chromosomes equally and exactly to the daughter cells

miosis

the process that reduces the diploid state to the haploid

synapsis

pairing of homologous chromosomes

kinectochores

protein structures associated with the centromeres of the duplicated chromosomes

centriole

each chromosome contains two barrel shaped, initiate microtubules - inside centrosomes

centrosome

the MTOCs are differentiated into small organelles - formation of spindle - found in cytoplasm near nucleus

centromere

associated with appartauts tat moves chromosmes during cell division