February 5/6

Bell Ringer:  If an organisms that has a diploid number of 20 chromosomes undergoes mitosis, how many chromosomes will be found in each daughter cell?

Today we reviewed the steps of mitosis using these 3 movies:

• http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm
• https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5EpcCFLGE37MmFjYjE0ZmItODUwYi00ZTAxLTkwMDMtYjM3YWUzMTg4MmQ1/edit
• https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5EpcCFLGE37NzBkY2I5OGItNDgxNy00Nzc1LWE5YjYtMmVhMjlhZTZkNDYz/edit

Next we went over the steps of meiosis and we compared and contrasted mitosis and meiosis.  Get notes from a friend when you come back or use the notes and powerpoint form the January 30/31 blog post.  We also worked on this worksheet using notes and a textbook.