Learning Objectives

After completing this lab, the students will be able to:

• identify the different phases of the cell cycle, mitosis and meiosis.
• Identify and describe the phases of mitosis.
• Describe the cellular events that take place during meiosis and the differences between meiosis I and meiosis II.
• Identify the differences between mitosis and meiosis.

Lab Readings

Read the following materials before you begin the experiment.

A. Somatic Cell Division: Mitosis and Cytokinesis 

• The cell cycle (Openstax)
  https://openstax.org/books/biology/pages/10-2-the-cell-cycle
• Cell Growth and Mitosis. Press the Play button to start the slide presentation. https://www.biologycorner.com/bio1/notes_cell_division.html 
• The Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Meiosis (Univ. of Leicester)
  https://www2.le.ac.uk/projects/vgec/highereducation/topics/cellcycle-mitosis-meiosis 
• Mitosis- definition, purpose, stages and application with diagram. https://microbenotes.com/mitosis/
• The Differences between Plant Mitosis and Animal Mitosis.
  https://onlinesciencenotes.com/mitosis-differences-between-plant-cells-and-animal-cells/ 

B. MEIOSIS and GENETIC DIVERSITY  

• The Process of Meiosis (Openstax)
  https://openstax.org/books/biology/pages/11-1-the-process-of-meiosis
• Meiosis (by John W. Kimball)
  http://www.biology-pages.info/M/Meiosis.html 
• Meiosis (by Grimes, W. J., Warren, D. K., Univ. of Arizona) http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/meiosis/main.html
• Meiosis- definition, purpose, stages, applications with diagram https://microbenotes.com/meiosis/
• Beyond Mendel by Dave Krupp.
  http://krupp.wcc.hawaii.edu/biol101/present/byndmend/index.htm 
• Mendel and Meiosis.  
  https://ib.bioninja.com.au/higher-level/topic-10-genetics-and-evolu/101-meiosis/mendel-and-meiosis.html 

Videos

Watch the following videos before you start the lab activity.

1. View the Mitosis video below or on YouTube channel.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6hn3sA0ip0&feature=youtu.be

2. View the Meiosis-Made super easy-Animation video below or on YouTube.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEyeKQClqI&feature=youtu.be

Lab Activities

1. Identify parts of the cell and phases of Mitosis from the Mitosis magnetic board below. ( see Meiosis magnetic board images for reference)

2. Identify phase of Meiosis on Meiosis magnetic board below.

meiosis-magnetic-model-labeled-1

3. Study the Blue board meiosis below.

blue-board-meiosis

4. Study the Black board meiosis below.

black-board-meiosis-cropped

5. View these Whitefish blastula and Allium root tip slides below:

• Mitosis in Allium root tip (plant cell), Whitefish blastula (animal cell) and Lily anther (microsporogenesis).
  http://www.nslc.wustl.edu/courses/Bio2970/duncan/labs/MitosisMeiosis.pdf 
• Mitosis in Allium root tip (plant cell), Whitefish blastula (animal cell) by John H. Wahlert & Mary Jean Holland. http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/jwahlert/bio1003/mitosis.html  
• Mitosis in Whitefish blastula
  https://undergraduate.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses/vph-308/histology/lab-1-histology-cells-and-organelles/white-fish-blastula-slide-wsu_3_092b  
• Eight slides of Whitefish blastula
  https://www.ncccval.com/copy-of-epithelium-images-1 

Quiz

1. Cell cycle and Mitosis quiz. Press Problem 1 to start the quiz.  
   http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/cell_cycle/problems.html 
2. Meiosis quiz. Press Problem 1 button to start the quiz.
   http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/cell_cycle/problems.html