BIOL133 Week 9 Lab Assignment 6 - Mitosis
Course : American Public
Contributed : May Anderson
- $20.00
*You will complete Mitosis Exercises 1 and 2.
*You will not complete Mitosis Exercise 3.
*You must answer all questions below, including the post lab questions.
Mitosis Pre-Lab Questions
- What are chromosomes made of? (10 points)
Mitosis Exercise 1
Identifying Stages of the Cell Cycle/Observation of Mitosis in a Plant Cell
- Observe the images of the onion root tip using the digital slide image viewer.
- Locate a good example of a cell in each of the following stages: interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.
- Identify the following cells with their phase of mitosis. Note: answers may be used more than once. (12 points)
Mitosis Exercise 2
- Open the digital exercise through the hyperlink provided in the Experiment Inventory and complete the digital exercise.
- Take a screenshot of your completed data table upon completion of the digital exercise and insert it here: (28 points)
Mitosis Exercise 3 – Do not complete this exercise
Mitosis Post Lab Questions
- How many chromosomes were present before mitosis? (2.5 points)
- How many chromosomes did each of the daughter cells contain after mitosis? (2.5 points)
- Cite an example of a type of cell that undergoes mitosis. Why is it important for each daughter cell to contain information identical to the parent cell? (15 points)
- Human skin cells divide at a higher rate than neurons (nerve cells). Hypothesize why this may be. (15 points)
- Hypothesize what would happen if the sister chromatids did not split equally during anaphase of mitosis. (15 points)
