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1. If I could go back and tell myself something about the differences between mitosis and meosis I would say that mitosis makes a diploid cell and meosis makes haploid cells. I think this would help me in the furture because if I see a diploid cell, I can determine that it went through mitosis. For example, if a saw a skin cell I would know that it went through mitosis because it is a diploid cell. If I saw a sperm cell, I can tell that it went through meosis because it is a haploid cell.







2. I think if we did an experiment where we looked at a lot of different cells and determined if they went through meosis or mitosis, it would be helpful. I think this would be helpful because it will help us see the differences of the diploid cells and haploid cells, and mitosis and meosis.

Science Blog 15

1. What science ideas did you learn?

This week we started learning about meosis. I learned that the steps of meosis are prophase I, metaphase I, anaohase I, telophase I, prophase II, metaphase II, anaphase II, telophase II, and gamete. I learned that mitosis and meosis are similar in someways and they are also different.

2. How did you learn these ideas?

I learned these ideas by watching simulations on the computer. After that we read about what that phase did and then we wrote it down in our own words. I also made a venn diagram showing how meosis is similar to mitosis.

3. How will these ideas help you?

These ideas will help me because in the future when I look under a microscope, I will be able to determine if the cell is preforming meosis or mitosis. This will help me because I can use that information to make better conclusions and hypothesies.

Science Blog 14

1.What science ideas did you learn?

This week we learned more about mitosis. We did a lot of different activities to help us learn. We calculated that a cell spends most of it's time in interphase which is where it just respirates and does other normal things.

2.How did you learn these ideas?

I learned these ideas by doing online simulations about mitosis. I think the online simulations really helped me understand mitosis better because they actually showed what was going on. We also had a lot of class disscusions on mitosis and what each stage did. Finally, we did different worksheets that we had to answer questions about mitosis.

3. How might these ideas be helpful?

These ideas will be helpful because now when we are looking under a microscope, we can identify what stage each cell is in. This would be helpful because it would help us with our hypothesis and predictions in the future.