My browser is a bit outdated and cant access certain websites that explain the concept well for me. I want to take notes so if it could be concise I will be happy. Merry Christmas and stay blessed.[I'm a secondary school student by the way which I think is high school in the US , if you could bring it down to my level I'd be glad]...
Can someone please explain mitosis and meiosis into detail for me
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Pinball1970
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Hi Eben, welcome to the site!
I couple of Biology graduates on here so you came to the right place.
What level are you GCSE? UK?
Pinball1970
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I found this which has a nice schematic.
Mitosis vs Meiosis
Learn about mitosis vs meiosis. Compare and contrast the two forms of cell division, focusing on the difference between them.
sciencenotes.org
Why don't you update your browser?
Pinball1970
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Ok you are 17 which is A level. You should have covered cell division in lower 6th.
I am yet to write WASSCE ~~ It's a type of final examination for senior high schools in WEST AFRICA, I'm from Ghana by the way.
Its not possible, Microsoft has stopped support for windows phones. I use Windows Lumia 635
I don't know what that means, the Education system is quite different here in Ghana.
We covered it but I didn't quite get it( I could just put the steps in my head but I want to be a Biologist -- I want to understand it and not just memorise it,(thanks for the welcome by the way)...
Pinball1970
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Ghana, ok.
Can you access the link I posted in #3?
Pinball1970
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You will have to learn the names of the phases plus a lot of other things in Biology, it's fun though!
exchemist
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eben , many thanks for the extra background info. I'm sorry I was a bit abrupt in response to your previous enquiry about upthrust in liquids. If I'd known you were a school student I'd have been a bit more understanding. We get a lot of cranks and drive-by timewasters here, to whom I tend to give short shrift.
A genuine school student, keen to learn, is a rare luxury for us! Pinball1970 is good on biology. I'm just a chemist that can do some general physics, incl. simple quantum theory. For hard physics (relativity, particle physics etc) you need James R.
Pinball1970
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I got the below from Wikipedia. So you could be taking University entrance exams?
"WASSCE and GCE is the NARIC equivalent of GCSE and A-Levels respectively"
That link will be insufficient, what text book are you currently using?
eben , many thanks for the extra background info. I'm sorry I was a bit abrupt in response to your previous enquiry about upthrust in liquids. If I'd known you were a school student I'd have been a bit more understanding. We get a lot of cranks and drive-by timewasters here, to whom I tend to give short shrift.
Don't worry I understand, and thanks for the info
Yh, it was a summarised version , currently I use "Annointing Mega series "- its not a really popular book . I actually left the book at school(I'm on Christmas break) I'm a boarding school student and left some of my stuff at school since my items are too many.I only brought a few books since I'm only spending two weeks at home.
Any resource I can get is welcome sir..
Pinball1970
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This is better but may be more detailed than you need. Learn the phases, what happens in each one, do you understand every term you come across?
Mitosis - Wikipedia
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Pinball1970
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Ok, start from the beginning, which is the first thing that does not make sense?
Start with mitosis.
I could do with your curriculum, i do not want to miss out details or give you too much. I'll check on line.
Do you have lecture notes?
I finally found one article and the websites fit it well, I even got the opportunity to download as pdf:
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https://app.sophia.org/tutorials/mitosis-11?msockid=20aeee32b86867d32f7af8fcb93e66b4 ""
They explained the "terms " I didn't understand.
Thank you so much Pinball 1970
TheVat
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After several oversized Xmas meals, I can no longer see mitosis.
Seriously, if you want to be a biologist, you will do well to understand the key purpose of crossing over in meiosis. The process of natural selection and evolution depends on this. This recombination is one that shuffles parental alleles, producing new gene combinations that are not present in the parent -- and that is important for natural selection and evolution. So try to form an idea about what sex cells, gametes, are doing to help genetic diversity. And feel free to ask questions when anything we say doesn't make sense to you.
Seriously, if you want to be a biologist, you will do well to understand the key purpose of crossing over in meiosis. The process of natural selection and evolution depends on this. This recombination is one that shuffles parental alleles, producing new gene combinations that are not present in the parent -- and that is important for natural selection and evolution. So try to form an idea about what sex cells, gametes, are doing to help genetic diversity. And feel free to ask questions when anything we say doesn't make sense to you.
Thank you