Mitosis and meiosis

Duration: 0:22:00

Genre: Educational | Nature

Year Published: 1956

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Uses stained cells, animation, and time-lapse cinephotomicrography of living cells to compare mitosis and meiosis. Shows onion root tip, whitefish embryo, salamander epidermal, and living Tradescantia staminal hair cells photographed in time-lapse photography to present the details of mitosis. Portrays the basic features of meiosis by using lily anther cells and living sperm cells of a grasshopper photographed by time-lapse photography. Animation sequences give a side-by-side comparison of the two processes and show how mitosis, meiosis, and fertilization fit into the life cycle of common organisms., Illustrates the life cycle of common organisms and the two basic types of cell division--mitosis, accounting for growth from the fertilized egg to the adult - and meiosis, essential to the production of sex cells-by examining the life cycle of a starfish.

Complete Record: , Illustrates the life cycle of common organisms and the two basic types of cell division--mitosis, accounting for growth from the fertilized egg to the adult - and meiosis, essential to the production of sex cells-by examining the life cycle of a starfish.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.