Virtual Mitosisfrom Barnhardt's World

Copy and complete the table.  Add to it as you go through the webquest.

	Interphase	Prophase	Metaphase	Anaphase	Telophase
Events in Phase
Drawing of phase (animal cell)
Drawing of Phase (plant cell)

Go to Cell Division: Binary Fission and Mitosis to answer the following questions.

G1 and G2 - What does the "G" stand for?  (not Gap) What is a centriole?  What does it do?  Which cells (plants or animals) have them? What happens during prometaphase? What is the equatorial plate? What is the difference in cytokinesis in plant cells and animal cells?

Go through The Cell Cycle & Mitosis Tutorial .and Cell’s Alive Interactive.

What is DNA and where is it stored? What is the purpose of mitosis? What are the stages of the cell cycle? Which stages are associated with Interphase? List some of the features necessary for regulation of the cell cycle, and in which errors can lead to cancer. What is (and is not) mitosis? Do Test Yourself and include your and the correct answers.

Go to the link with the photographs of the onion tips and whitefish. 

Review the pictures.

Do the Determining time spent in different phases of the cell cycle LAB.  Create and fill in a chart comparable to the one below.

	Interphase	Prophase	Metaphase	Anaphase	Telophase	Total
Number of Cells						36
Percent of Cells						100%