Mitosis and Meiosis

By Drs. Ingrid Waldron, Jennifer Doherty, Scott Poethig and Lori Spindler,. Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, CC-BY-NC 4.0

 

This minds-on, hands-on activity helps students to understand how mitosis and meiosis ensures that each new cell gets a complete set of genes. Activity is designed to utilize models to demonstrate movement of chromosomes during mitosis, meiosis and fertilization and understand how these processes result in transmission of genes from parents to offspring.

 

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