Friday, March 27, 2009

So What's Mitosis?

Ok. Mitosis is when one Eukaryotic cell separates the chromosomes inside its nucleus. The chromosomes are some organized stuctures of DNA that carry all of the genetic information.



Here is a picture of a dog lung cell on the anaphase stage:


Mitosis also happens inside you! I am sure that right now there are millions of cells going through mitosis inside you. this is a picture of a muscle cell in the anaphase state:


In resume Mitosis is the process in which the chromosomes inside a cell separate to make an identical copy.


2 comments:

pzaldumbide said...

Hi Louis

Nice entry!! Dont forget to add bibliography or cite where are you taking info and pictures. Good luck

Aura Maria Chiriboga said...

Louis,
your blog is very good has pictures adn also good information. i hope you enjoy doing this project