Title: Laboratory practicals :Mitosis in onion roots
Course: Biochemistry > Section: Week 4 - Unit 1.6_ Cell Division

Purpose: To identify stages of mitosis in plant cells

Over to you:

Using microscope images, you will be able to identify the appearance of chromosomes and other cell structures during the phases of mitosis.

Activity

In this lesson, students will observe onion root tips under a microscope, count the number of cells they find in each stage of the cell cycle, and then use this information to draw a pie graph that will predict the percentage of time spent in each stage.