Worksheets

Click here to download lesson 8 textbook worksheets. (Acrobat reader plug-in is required)

Click here to download lesson 8 lab worksheets. (Acrobat reader plug-in is required)

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Textbook assignment

Step 1:

Read Chap. 10 and Chap. 11, all pages, in your text and answer the related questions on your worksheets.

If you need help, there is an answer key at the front desk of the Biology Learning Center.

Textbook publisher's web activities

Step 2: Complete the following activities from the textbook publisher's website. Answer the related questions on your worksheet. These activities are from a previous edition of your textbook - that's OK. (Note: Only complete the activities listed below, not all of the activities for each text chapter.)

Chapter 11 textbook publisher's web activities

• 11.1 - Prokaryotes
• 11.2 - Chromosomes
• 11.3 - Mitosis overview
• 11.3 - Plant cell mitosis
• 11.3 - Mitosis

Chapter 12 textbook publisher's web activities

• 12.1 - Art Quiz - Alternation of generations
• 12.2 - Review of cell division
• 12.2 - Meiosis/mitosis
• 12.3 - Meiosis
• 12.3 - Meiosis (ESP)
• 12.3 - Recombination
• 12.4 - Evolution of sex

To view the activities, you must have plug-ins for Shockwave and RealPlayer installed on your computer. Click here for directions to download the plug-ins.

Lab activities

Please follow the directions below and answer the related questions on your worksheet.

Step 3: Complete In-Class Activity - Observing Mitosis Under the Microscope
for lab points

Step 4: Complete Internet Activity - Online Onion Root Tips
for lab points

Step 5: Complete Internet Activity - Mitosis and Meiosis Tutorials
No points, but important for your exam

Self quiz

Step 5: Review material from lesson 8 to prepare for your exam.

Use the self-quiz below to review material from lesson 8 that will be on your exam. These questions are similar, but not identical, to questions on your exam.

Click here to begin the multiple choice self-quiz for lesson 8

Optional

Cells Alive - Mitosis
This great site has an interactive animation with graphics and a real cell undergoing mitosis. The page also includes a text explanation of each phase of mitosis.

Biology Project
The Cell Cycle and Mitosis tutorial introduces events that occur in the cell cycle and mitosis.
The Meiosis tutorial introduces events that occur in meiosis.

Online Biology Book
This site has separate sections on mitosis and meiosis.