Essential Question
What is the role of Mitosis in Producing and Maintaining complex
Organisms?
In order for our cells to grow and for us to develop we need Mitosis. The cell cycle explains how our cells go through their daily functions and grow to maintain homeostasis. We will look at what happens if something in this cycle GOES WRONG, as well as the basic process that allows organisms to grow, develop and repair.
Below are our Learning Targets for this unit. As with other units, these are treated as mastery goals. All students have the opportunity to retake our learning target quizzes to show mastery of content. They must come to a review session before they can retake the quiz. Sessions are held at lunch in my classroom every Tuesday and Thursday.
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What is the Cell Cycle? How does it keep our cells healthy and growing?
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It is important for our Cell Cycle to continue to happen correctly. There are major issues that might happen if something goes wrong with cell Division or DNA replicaiton
Axolotl research video show in class
Very good video to help explain how our cells become specialized.
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Academic Vocabulary
Cell Cycle
Interphase Mitosis S-Phase G1 G2 Homologous Chromosome Parent Cell Daughter Cell |
Stem Cells
Regeneration DNA Cyclins Cancer |