1. Mitosis task:
You are going to be studying the stages of mitosis today. Start by going to
this website http://www.biology.arizona.edu and clicking the link Onion Root
Tips.
This takes you to an online exercise which requires you to decide which
phases of mitosis different pictures of onion cells show. Fill in your results in
the table below.
eInterphas
Metaphase
Telophase
Anaphase
Prophase
Total
number of cells 36
percent of cells
(calculate by dividing # 100%
cells by 36 then x 100)
Time spent in stage
assuming the whole cell
cycle lasts 24 hours 24h
(calculate by by dividing
# cells by 36 then x 24)
Construct a pie chart to show the proportion of time spent in the different
stages of the cell cycle.