Meagan F-L, April 13 Blog #3, 3/3

Today in class we:

• Presented our Mitosis and Meiosis Candy Lab to Mr. Challoner
• Were assigned questions from the board, along with a practice question booklet and review questions from the textbook

About the material:

I think it's very convenient and efficient for meiosis to echo mitosis, in that the processes are the exact same.  It's also very sensible and simple, so I'm surprised at how easily things can go wrong. When we learned about the ploidy number in cells, I wondered if there were different animals or types of living creatures that would have different ploidy numbers than humans.

Above and Beyond:

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploidy, plants, amphibians, reptiles and insects tend to be polyploids more often than animals.  Often within these organisma, they well be tetraploidy.  This means that they have four copies of the chromosomes.  In amphibians that are tetraploidy, they will act as if they are still diploidy.  This is referred to as being amphiploids, which are allopolyploids that act as if they are diploids. 

I would give myself 3/3 because I did the required work for each category (and had to look up and read about lots of big words to understand what exactly it was that I wrote in my "Above and Beyond")