Exercise 11.1 - Mitosis
- Prepared slide of Onion root tip
- Prepared slide of whitefish blastula
- Obtain a slide of an onion root tip and examine it for the
basic stages of mitosis. Refer to Figure 11.3 for comparison.
- Draw and label each of the stages.
- Obtain a slide of a whitefish blastula for observation of
the stages of mitosis in an animal cell. Since early
embryogenesis involves rapid cellular division, the whitefish
blastula has long served as a model of mitotic division in
animals. It also has the advantage of demonstrating clear spindle
formation in the cytoplasm.
- Using Figure 11.3A as a guide, draw and label all stages of
mitosis, including spindle formation, in the whitefish blastula.
- Compare the division of the cell (cytokinesis) from the
onion root tip to that of the whitefish blastomeres.
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