Lab 3: Mitosis and Meiosis Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to recognize the stages as well as events of mitosis and meiosis in a plant cell or an animal cell. The relative duration of each stage in the cell cycle will also be learned during this lab. By doing this lab we will also create a model of and understand the process of crossing over. This lab also helps students understand the similarities along with differences between mitosis and meiosis. Hypothesis: I predict that
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Process of Diffusion and its importance in living organisms Diffusion is the movement of molecules or ions down a concentration gradient i.e. from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. For a diffusion system to be efficient‚ it should have a large surface area so that high amount of substances can be exchanged at a time. It should also have a thin membrane and a continuous supply of substances‚ as a thin membrane means that the diffusion pathway would be short‚ and the continuous
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Unit 5 Free Response Meric Pope Meiosis 1 and Mitosis are very similar events‚ however‚ they have certain differences. One difference is crossing over. Meiosis 1 does cross over and because of that‚ it creates genetic changes. Mitosis ‚ on the other hand‚ does not cross over. Something else that is different is the way it occurs. Meiosis 1 is sexual but Mitosis is asexual. Another change is the number of divisions that each event goes through. Meiosis 1 goes through 2 divisions which ends up having
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The process of osmosis and its importance to living organisms Osmosis is the process by which there is a net movement of water through a semi permeable membrane from an area of high water potential to an area of low water potential. Within a cell‚ osmosis has the following effect. If the water potential of the cell is lower than that around the cell water will move across a concentration gradient into the cell. If this is the case‚ the increase in water in the cell‚ may cause the cell to swell
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Abstract: The question of the investigation is if lectin can induce mitosis in the cell of an onion root tip. The hypothesis is that‚ if the lectin does not induce mitosis‚ then there should not be a great change in the number of cells that undergo mitosis. The alternate is‚ if the lectin does induce mitosis‚ then there should be an increase in of cells in mitosis. The control group of the experiment had root tip treated with water‚ and the experimental had root tip treated with lectin. Upon the
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Cycle‚ Mitosis and Meiosis. Cells have the ability to grow‚ have particular functions‚ and replicate during their life. Although cell enlargement is part of organismal growth‚ cell replication is also required and allows growth without each cell becoming too large. All of these activities are part of a repeating set of events known as the cell cycle. The major feature in the cell cycle is cellular replication and what enables for cellular replication is the process of mitosis. Mitosis is the
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Mitosis /Meiosis Mitosis occurs all the time in all body cells. This occurs to produce new cells and replace old and dead cells. We produce new blood cells‚ bone cells‚ skin cells...the list can go on and on. Mitosis in a nutshell is the process of splitting the nucleus and it occurs hand in hand with the rest of the cell cycle and cytokenesis. Meiosis‚ on the other hand‚ is a process of taking a diploid cell (a cell with the full number
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Why are Living Organism so Diverse ? Regardless of world’s life diversity‚ we all‚ from the ant to the whale and us humans have DNA linkage‚ which gives us the evidence for one common ancestor. The question that comes up now is how from this very primitive common ancestor did we all end up so diverse. Biologist have dedicated they life to answer this question‚ Through this essay I shall show how through different aspects life has become so diverse. Timescale Life as not evolve suddenly from its
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and a base. A and T pair together to form a DNA molecule and G and C together form a DNA molecule. The shape that Rosalind images were was a spiral shape. DNA unites all organisms’ means that DNA is the main source in the cell and has the most important job‚ therefore uniting the cells. The DNA of all living organisms have the same structure and code. 80 percent would be the percentage of Guanine because Cytosine is 20 percent and 80 plus 20 equals 100. Pg. 164 Three types of mutations
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Between meiosis and mitosis there are many unique similarities and differences such that mitosis has four stages and meiosis has eight. Or a similarity where they both have no new gene combination when each of the cells splits after each of their processes. Many more of these similarities and differences will be explained throughout the text. Many similarities occur between meiosis and mitosis such that each process‚ after it has been gone through‚ result in no new gene combination. Each new cell
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