Onion root mitosis

Doing this onion mitosis lab, it was pretty interesting to see all the things that we saw. Actually seeing the different phases such as Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, and Telophase was really cool. Looking at the pictures on the edmodo site compared to the actual thing was a big difference, but it was also a bug help to help recognize the cells.

   Mitosis plays a pretty big part in the onion root tips that we were looking at. Mitosis is the thing that lets the nuclei of dells to and provide the daughter cells with a full set of chromosomes during cellular division.When a cell is at rest, it is in the phase called interphase. 

	Interphase	Prophase	Metaphase	Anaphase	Telophase
number of cells	20	10	3	2	1	36
percent of cells	55.5	27.8	08.3	05.5	02.7	100%

Doing this table, the only things that were filled out were the totals on the right hand side, and the headings on the top and side. After getting help from the teacher with the table, the bottom row the total i came out with was 99.8% so i was very close to the 100% total that it was supposed to be. 

    We then looked at onion roots underneath the microscope ourselves and we had to make a table just like the one above from the things that we had observed from underneath the microscope. In the pie chart, it is a little easier to understand the different amounts found. 

	Interphase	Prophase	Metaphase	Anaphase	Telophase
number of cells	619	14	6	4	5	648
percent of cells	.96	.02	.009	.006	.008	1.003

Observing underneath the microscope we found that there were a lot of interphase cells in that root. There weren't many of the others, and on top of that, they were hard to see. Being honest, all of this mitosis stuff confuses me, and it was a little hard for me to learn, but i guess i took some of it in and learned a little. In this pie chart, you can see that the thing that took up pretty much everything was the Interphase. It was a really big part go the cells we found underneath the microscope.