Question

Question 8 4 pts Which statement best describes the overall function/purpose of interphase? Hint: Cell Cycle and Interphase video • Textbook chapter 10 section 10.2 To divide a parent cell into two identical daughter cells. To double the number of chromosomes. To duplicate all of the cellular contents. To convert a haploid nucleus into a diploid nucleus. To condense and package the DNA into tightly wound chromosomes.

Answer 1

Function of interphase - While prokaryotic cells, like bacteria, replicate through binary fission, eukaryotic cells divide through mitosis or meiosis. Only sexually-reproducing cells go through meiosis, but all eukaryotic cells use mitosis as a means of duplicating. Interphase is an integral part of the cell cycle that prepares a cell for mitosis by producing proteins and duplicating chromosomes. Interphase was once considered the “resting stage” of the cell cycle because microscopy could not detect movement in the cells. It is now known, however, that interphase is a period of great growth and essential preparation for mitosis.

Hence option 'b' - to double the number of chromosomes is correct

B- 'c' not all bacteria have single chromosomes