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Cell Cycle: Meiosis Lecture Materials

These are the Cell Cycle: Meiosis Lecture materials of the Virtual Cell Biology Classroom. The resources below are used to supplement an actual college cell biology course. Anyone taking, teaching or interested in biology may find these materials helpful and is welcome to use them.

The Meiosis Lecture materials include:

a list of learning objectives

a PowerPoint lecture

a homework assignment

"class note" articles

practice test questions

review questions

links to additional educational materials

MEIOSIS LECTURE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

These lecture learning objectives are a study guide based on the VCBC Cell Cycle: Meiosis Lecture PowerPoint:

Make a list comparing and contrasting mitosis and meiosis. You do have some slides that make these comparisons. But after you’ve studied, see if you can make a list on your own, from memory.

How many nuclear divisions occur in mitosis? Meiosis?

What separates during meiosis I? What separates during meiosis II?

What is independent assortment?

What is crossing over?

Know the phases of meiosis I and meiosis II.

If a cell with 6 chromosomes divides to form gametes, how many chromosomes will the resulting gametes each have?

What were the 3 things that we discussed which increase genetic diversity in sexually reproducing organisms?

Other than fostering genetic diversity, what other advantage is there to sexual reproduction (I am looking for a Biology Answer. ‘Sex is fun’ is not the answer I am looking for here).

In order to make sure that you understand what goes on during the phases of mitosis and meiosis, practice with paper models like we did in class, or draw it out. This will help you truly understand.

MEIOSIS LECTURE POWERPOINT

All of the lecture PowerPoints used in the Virtual Cell Biology Classroom have fill-in-the-blanks on many of the slides to encourage students to pay attention and follow along during the presentation. Instructors, contact us for the information that goes in the blanks.

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MEIOSIS HOMEWORK

Word document of an in-class activity given to students at the end of lecture. This tool helps the students review the main messages of the lecture while allowing the instructor to assess the class' understanding of the material. Click here to see a Photo Guide of the Meiosis Classroom Activity.

MEIOSIS CLASS NOTES

Here are brief summaries of some of the various subtopics and concepts introduced in this lecture, kind of like really good class notes.

Genetics Terminology: Chromosomes & Sister Chromatids

Genetics Terminology: Duplicated & Homologous Chromosomes

Cell Division: Binary Fission, Mitosis & Meiosis

MEIOSIS PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS

Practice test questions designed to help you better understand the material from this lecture. They are based on information in the Cell Cycle: Meiosis PowerPoint Lecture.

MEIOSIS REVIEW QUESTIONS

Questions designed to help you review the material in the Cell Cycle: Meiosis Lecture.

MORE MEIOSIS LINKS

Meiosis animation, step-through and quiz, Sadava, et al., Life: The Science of Biology, 9th Edition, Sinauer Associates.

Meiosis step through animation from CellsAlive.com.

Meiosis animation from McGraw-Hill.

Independent Assortment animation, step-through and quiz, WHFreeman.

Is Monogamy Natural? video by Joe Quirk.

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