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Animal Mitosis Microviewer Questions
Answer the following questions on a separate piece of paper. Use your cell
diagrams and the accompanying booklet to help you with your answers.
1. All life as begins as a _________________________.
2. A) What animal cell are you observing? ___________________________________________.
B) What makes this cell good for our study of mitosis?
The Zygote
3. What does 750X mean?
4. What is a zygote?
5. Describe the similarities and differences between an egg vs. a sperm cell.
Pro-Metaphase
6. How many chromosomes does each parent contribute to the zygote?
7. What do the chromosomes begin to do at this stage? Describe their shapes.
Metaphase
8. Where have the chromosomes moved to?
9. What organelle is found at the end of the equatorial plate?
10. What is the function of the centromere?
Early Anaphase
11. What has each chromosome completed by this stage?
12. Where are the groups of chromosomes moving to?
Anaphase
13. What are spindle fibers made of?
14. What is the function of the spindle fibers at this stage?
Telophase
15. What is happening to the cell membrane and cytoplasm at this stage?
Late Telophase
16. How many cells are there now?
17. How many chromosomes are in each cell?
18. How many chromosomes are in a human cell?
Plant Mitosis Microviewer Questions
Answer the following questions on a separate piece of paper. Use your cell
diagrams and the accompanying booklet to help you with your answers.
1. After propagating a plant, how similar are daughter plants to their parent plants? Why?
2. What is mitosis?
3. What specific plant cell is being viewed in these slides?
Early Prophase
4. What functions are being carried out by the cell in interphase?
5. What organelles can you see at this stage?
6. What happens to the chromosomes in early prophase?
Prophase
7. Compare Slide 2 to Slide 1. What is happening to the shape of the nucleus?
Metaphase
8. Describe the appearance of the chromosomes at this stage.
9. Where are chromosomes at the end of metaphase?
Early Anaphase
10. Describe the shape and number of the chromosomes in this stage.
11. What is the function spindle fibers?
12. What are spindle fibers made of?
Anaphase
13. What is the main function of mitosis?
Late Anaphase
14. What do the two sets of chromosomes do upon reaching the poles?
15. What is the status of cell wall development at this stage?
Telophase
16. Can you see the individual chromosomes in at this stage? What do they look like?
17. Can you see the spindle fibers at this stage?
Late Telophase
18. What aspect of new nuclei can be seen in this stage?
19. Describe the role of the cell wall at this stage.
20. After the division of the cells, what stage will they be in?