Lab 5: Cell Division and Mitosis 

Materials

• Parts I, II and III: 
• Whole mount slides
• Microscope 
• Onion root
• Stain
• Pipe cleaners
• Plastic rings

Exercises

• Main Idea:
  
• Learn phases of mitosis 
• Part I
• Examine the whole mount slides and find different phases of mitosis 
• Part II
• Prepare onion slides by staining the cells 
• Find stages of mitosis under the microscope 
• Answer questions in packet
• Part III
• Create pipe cleaner model that represent homologous chromosomes 
• Bind "homologous chromosomes" together 
• Go through the phases with the models