Mitosis and Meiosis When going over the cell cycle‚ mitosis and meiosis are two major components. Mitosis is the division of the cell’s nucleus‚ and is followed by cytokinesis. Cytokinesis is the division of cytoplasm. Mitosis is only one phase that a cell goes through in the cell cycle. Also the mitotic phase is one of the shortest phases. Mitosis can be broken down into five different stages; prophase‚ prometaphase‚ metaphase‚ anaphase‚ and telophase. In prophase the nucleoli starts to disappear
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Bio-111 Laboratory #8 Mitosis and Meiosis 17 November 2010 Part1-Questions: a) Explain mitosis Mitosis is a process of asexual reproduction in eukaryotic cells. This process is divided into five stages: prophase‚ metaphase‚ anaphase‚ telophase and cytokinesis. A diploid cell duplicates its genetic information. Therefore the two diploid daughter cells will receive an exact copy of the genetic material. Explain meiosis Meiosis is a two round cell division process where a diploid cell divides
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Process of Mitosis Mitosis is the term used to describe cell division for replication. The product at the end of mitosis is two daughter cells both genetically identical to the original (parent) cell. This process (mitosis) is used for growth and repair within an organism (and also for asexual reproduction). There are five main stages to mitosis‚ called Interphase‚ Prophase‚ Metaphase‚ Anaphase and Telophase. Although the process has been divided up into these stages the process of mitosis is actually
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of mitosis in a garlic root tip. Apparatus: Garlic roots 5 Molar hydrochloric acid Toluidine blue stain 2 watch glasses or small sample tubes Hollow glass blocks Pipettes Microscope slides and cover slips Pair of fine forceps Filter paper Microscope with magnifications of x100 and x400 Stop watch Method: 1. Firstly cut out about 1cm from several root tips of growing garlic roots. Choose root tips which are white and have rounded edges‚ not ones that are turning brown 2. Place the root tips in
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ROOTS * is an organ of a plant that typically lies below the surface of the soil. * a part of a plant body that bears no leaves‚ and therefore also lacks of nodes. * is the beginning of the vascular system pipeline that moves water and minerals from the soil up to the leaves and fruits. FUNCTIONS OF ROOTS: * Underground (usually) * Anchor the plant in the soil * Absorb water and nutrients * Conduct water and nutrients * Food Storage ROOT SYSTEM: 1. Tap root system
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A Project Proposal Project Title: EFFECTIVENESS OF GARLIC (Allium sativum) AND CHILI (Capsicum annuum) MIXTURE AS A COCKROACH (Blattaria) REPELLENT Proponents: 9Full name with Last name first) School Project Cost: _____________ Significance: In common Filipino households‚ ipis or cockroaches are very common. Cockroaches can cause a lot of health hazards. Roaches themselves do not have diseases‚ but can transmit germs with their hairy legs and sticky feet. An another health hazard is that
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AP LAB # 3: MITOSIS AND MEIOSIS Website to go for quizzes and activities: Print out the quizzes for mitosis and meiosis http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/ OVERVIEW Exercise 3A is a study of mitosis. You will simulate the stages of mitosis by using chromosome models.You will use prepared slides of onion root tips to study plant mitosis and to calculate the relative duration of the phases of mitosis in the meristem of root tissue. Prepared slides of the whitefish blastula
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Meiosis and Mitosis Meiosis vs. Mitosis: Meiosis requires two nuclear divisions‚ but mitosis requires only one nuclear division. Meiosis producers four daughter nuclei‚ and there are four daughter cells following cytokinesis; mitosis followed by cytokinesis results in two daughter cells. Following meiosis‚ the four daughter cells are haploid and have half the chromosome number as the parent cell. Following mitosis‚ the daughter cells have the same chromosome number as the parent cell. Following
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100 CheckPoint: Mitosis and Meiosis Mitosis and meiosis are both important to a living organism because they represent cell divisions that are very important to every living organism because without cell division all living organisms would fail to reproduce‚ eventually dying out. Cell division plays a very important role in the life cycle of a cell. Mitosis and meiosis are important to living organism because they help living organisms to grow‚ develop‚ and reproduce. Mitosis is a type of asexual
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Growth‚ repair and reproduction. • Growth: This is a result of mitosis. The more cells in an organism‚ the larger that organism is. Humans start off as one single cell‚ and by the time they are adults‚ they have over 10 trillion cells!!! This increase in the number of cells also allows for some of those cells to be specialized for various functions. This is important to the survival of many organisms. • Repair: This is a result of mitosis. If tissue is damaged‚ repair is extremely important. With
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