Interphase: The cell is involved in metabolic activity and performs it's duty as part of a tissue. Prophase: Chromatin in the nucleus begin to condense and become visible as chromosomes. The nuclear membrane dissolves marking the beginning of prometaphase. Metaphase: Spindle fibers aline the chromosomes along the middle of the cells nucleus. Anaphase: The paired chromosomes separate at kinetochores and move to opposite sides of the cell. Telophase: New membranes from around the daughter nuclei while the chromosomes disperse and are no longer visible. What is mitosis and when does it occur? Mitosis is the division and reproduction of cells and it occurs whenever something is growing reproducing. Mitosis is the process that cells go through to divide. What are the stages? Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase How long do they last? You can explain what you learned about onion root mitosis. Interphase is the longest because the cell spends most of its life in that stage and does all of its tasks in interphase. How does this relate to the current research we are doing with planarians? Planarians use mitosis to regenerate pieces or entirely new planarians. How does understanding the process of mitosis help us tackle questions about human regeneration? If we understand how it works we can recreate it and begin to understand how it can work for us for medical purposes.
Plant Mania
Our project is seeing if a mint plant will grow faster with red light or regular light. We are going to have it in a cabinet on the wall with no light except the lights we put in their. We are going to have two plants growing at the same time to see if one will grow faster with different light. We will be using red led light and a white led light. We are growing the mint plant indoors but sunlight is used to grow plants but we are seeing if we can grow it indoors and with different light.9 Plants use photosynthesis to get their nutrition and strength.1 We need to know what different types of light plants can grow with so when we maybe go to other planets we know what light plants can grow with. Growing plants indoors could be better because there are no seasons to kill the plant. The plant will have an individual pot so it can't be invasive to other species and the plant hopefully will thrive. This will help with figuring out what light plants can grow with so we can eventually grow plants on another planet using the right materials. We will grow mint indoors because if we can grow one edible plant indoors we should be able to grow others indoors. What I would do differently is I would make sure all the plants got the same amount of water and have measure the plants throughout there growing process.
Photosynthesis Lab
The experiment we did was to see if leafs would stop floating after a while of being in sodium bicarbonate with a drop of soap. Before this experiment I didn't know how photosynthesis worked. Photosynthesis is the process where green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesis foods from carbon dioxide and water. My light was about an inch away from the light I used a regular light. I used an aspen leaf for my experiment.