MODELLING MITOSIS

Read these instructions very carefully!

Start this assignment by drawing a rough outline of what you will do, on paper. Do not make or cut out chromosomes until your
rough draft is finished.

You need:
Two pieces of cardboard of different colours
Glue
Scissors
A piece of A3 paper for the final presentation

Create two pairs of chromosomes by cutting them out from a piece of coloured cardboard. Give each pair a different colour and shape.
Label the pairs 1A & 1B, and 2A & 2B. (You might imagine that the A chromosomes have come from the mother and the B
chromosomes from the father.)

These two pairs of chromosomes are your starting point. Here is an example:

STEP 1
How are these chromosomes at the start of G1 in the cell cycle? They are exactly like you have created them. Stick them down, inside
a nucleus, in a cell. (Draw the cell and the nucleus around the chromosomes.) Label what you think needs labelling.

STEP 2
How are these chromosomes at the end of S Phase of the cell cycle? They have each replicated into 2 chromatids (which remain
joined at the centromere). Cut out new chromosomes of the same colour and shape, join them to the original chromosomes and stick
them down. (Again, draw the cell and the nucleus.) Label.

We now start MITOSIS. Show and label each of the steps in the same way that you have started.

STEP 3
PROPHASE. How are the chromosomes (and their chromatids) by the time prophase has finished.

STEP 4
METAPHASE

STEP 5
ANAPHASE

STEP 6
TELOPHASE

STEP 7

CYTOKINESIS