Brock Groenewegen, Post #3, Completed April 19th 2010 for the class of Thursday April 15 2010, 3/3

Review of the Class:

1. Wrote the Meiosis Section/Chapter Test
2. Marked the test

Thoughts about the Material:

            I thought that the meiosis test was a reasonable test, it wasn’t too hard and it wasn’t “drive-a-pencil-in-my-eye” easy. All in all, I found this meiosis process much more interesting than the mitosis section due to the intricacy and variability of meiosis. It is quite mind blowing when you try to understand how a cell can actually know which chromosomes go where and when to perform each action. In the end, I am not going to say I am going to miss working on all that meiosis stuff, but I did learn quite a bit from the stuff we did do. 

Additional Insight

            I did some general research on meiosis nondisjunction, seeing as no intriguing questions emerged from the lack of conversation during the test, and I found some interesting animations about meiotic nondisjunction. They just outline what happens when meiosis goes wrong, but I found them quite to the point and efficient at explaining what happens. Follow the following links to view them:

·      http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/mistakesmeiosis/mistakesmeiosis.swf

·      http://www.biostudio.com/d_%20Meiotic%20Nondisjunction%20Meiosis%20I.htm

·      http://www.medgen.ubc.ca/wrobinson/mosaic/intro/tri_how.htm