Cell Cycle Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. O-the phase when two new nuclei form
   O-telophase
2. !-The period where organelles and DNA replicates
   !-interphase
3. !-if there are 8 chromatin at the beginning of G1, how many will there be during cytokinesis?
   !-16
4. B-The molecule that makes up chromatin
   B-DNA
5. N-looks like a cell plate is forming
   N-
6. I-the period when the nucleus separates
   I-mitotic phase
7. B-happens slightly differently in plant and animal cells
   B-cytokinesis
8. N-those look like daughter cells
   N-
9. O-the two new cells at the end of it all
   O-Daughter cells
10. N-the longest period of the cell cycle
    N-Interphase
11. O-If a cell starts out with 10 mitochondria, how many will it have after Interphase
    O-20
12. B-looks like an animal cell is starting to do cytokinesis
    B-
13. G-A cell's whole life
    G-cell cycle
14. !-chromosomes line up down the middle
    !-metaphase
15. !-If the number of chloroplasts at the end of G1 is 20, how many were there at the beginning?
    !-10
16. !-attach to sister chromatids and pull them apart
    !-Spindle Fibers
17. N-a real cell doing anaphase
    N-
18. N-period where the cell gets larger and replicates organelles
    N-G1
19. B-wow. a REAL cell doing metaphase
    B-
20. I-It's foggy, but it's a real cell in prophase
    I-
21. B-If it's an animal cell, the presence of this tells you that cytokinesis is starting.
    B-Furrow
22. I-the chromosomes look like pairs of socks hanging on a clothes line
    I-metaphase
23. G-looks like prophase: the spindle fibers just formed.
    G-
24. N-the two daughter cells are...
    N-genetically identical
25. I-In this phase, chromatin condenses into chromosomes
    I-prophase
26. B-When DNA (chromatin) makes a copy of itself
    B-S phase
27. N-every human cell has ____ total chromosomes
    N-46
28. O-tangled up and stretched DNA
    O-Chromatin
29. O-separates on cell into 2
    O-cytokinesis
30. O-cell division in a unicellular organis is called
    O-asexual reproduction
31. I-copied DNA, joined together
    I-Sister Chromatids
32. O-Spindle fibers grab sister chromatids
    O-anaphase
33. !-In a plant cell, these join together to form the cell plate
    !-vessicles
34. G-Looks like anaphase!
    G-
35. !-hey, look! it's prophase!
    !-
36. B-Sister chromatids separate and are pulled apart
    B-anaphase
37. I-that definitely looks like telophase.
    I-
38. B-Free!
39. G-real cells about to move into the last part of telophase
    G-
40. I-this card showsTelophase
    I-
41. O-If the cell is an animal, the formation of this starts cytokinesis
    O-contractile ring
42. G-New nuclear membranes form
    G-telophase
43. !-this holds the sister chromatids together
    !-centromere
44. G-if you SEE 16 sister chromatids, how many chromatin were there?
    G-8
45. G-When the cell builds up supplies and sorts organelles
    G-G2
46. N-in a plant cell, the thing that causes cytokinesis
    N-cell plate
47. N-in this phase, chromosomes become visible
    N-prophase
48. G-How many chromosome pairs does a human cell have?
    G-23
49. O-that right there is metaphase!
    O-
50. B-to become larger by increasing cell size or cell number
    B-grow
51. I-to make a copy of
    I-replicate
52. I-half of a centrosome
    I-centrioles
53. G-mark your second free if you have one
    G-FREE again!
54. !-the number of lysosomes in a plant cell
    !-0
55. B-grow out of centrosomes
    B-Spindle Fiber