MItosis and Meiosis

The activity that I performed for mitosis and meiosis was not quite as fun as the candy activity that the rest of the class did. Although, the activity was still a very good representation of the process of mitosis and meiosis. In my activity I used different colored sheets of paper for my activity. There were different colors of paper each represented by a letting (T,A, G, C). Within the letters the T paired with an A and a G paired with a C. This process was representing cells pairing together and splitting in the process of duplication. 

In this project not only taught me more about mitosis and meiosis but also made it easier for me to remember the information by making it happen myself, on the table in front of me. Mitosis is the simple duplication of a cell and its parts. It duplicates its DNA into two new cells that are called daughter cells that of course, have the same genetic code. The main idea of this is that you have one cell to start they split and you get two that are the same. The process of this happening is brought through the 5 phases called prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and interphase.

In meiosis , there are two divisions as where in mitosis  there is one division. Now, in mitosis, four cells are created but they one receive half of the DNA needed by a cell. Meiosis takes place when its time to reproduce an organism. As you some say there is meiosis one and meiosis two, really this is just the phases of prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase and interphase happening twice.

Mitosis and meiosis are the same in the fact that the both go through the process of the five stages and they are different because mitosis goes through the five stages once to create one duplicate and meiosis goes through it twice to create four new ones which contain half the DNA and are not necessarily functioning cells.