MITOSIS VISUAL ANALOGY PROJECT BRADEN PEARSON CLIFFORD BORETSKY

PROPHASE – CELL • The first phase of mitosis • Nucleus disappears and spindle fibers form • The spindle fibers attach to the centromere of the sister chromatids • These chromatids are in an X shape • The centromere holds the sister chromatids together

PROPHASE – ANALOGY The prophase is like when a soccer team is in pairs passing around on a field

METAPHASE – CELL The chromosomes align in the center along the equator or center of the cell

METAPHASE – ANLOGY The metaphase is like when a soccer coach calls all his players to come and line up on the center line of the field

ANAPHASE – CELL • The spindle fibers pull on sister chromatids towards opposite poles of the cell • The sister chromatids separate at the centromere • Then when they separate they are pulled by the spindle fibers to opposite polls of the cell

ANAPHASE – ANALOGY This is like when a soccer coach separates each passing pair onto different teams for a scrimmage and they start going to their sides

TELOPHASE – CELL • This is the final stage of mitosis • spindle fibers disappear • A nuclear membrane forms around each separate set of chromosomes • The nuclear membrane forms to separate cytoplasm from nuclear DNA Nuclear membrane

TELOPHASE – ANALOGY • Telophase is like when the two separate teams are all together on their separate sides and are ready to play.

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