Sunday, January 18, 2009

Science This Week

This week in science, we studied how a cell reproduces a cell. The process is called mitosis. The cell first starts as a cell with a nucleas, (a regular cell), Then it gets a fuzzy circle around the nucleas.Next there is a giant nucleas. And finally, the cell divides into another cell and another cell gets created. The exact DNA of the prexisting cell was copied and then put into the new cell.

This is a website that shows an animation of this:http://www.cellsalive.com/mitosis.htm.
We also learnt how mRNA gets translated by the ribosome. This is a good show to go to that will explain how transcription and translation takes place:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl8pSlonmA0

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