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Why onion root tip for lab experiment? The onion roots grow rapidly in large number. The cells at the tip are actively dividing and therefore all cell cycle stages are easy to visualize in single preparation. The onion tips are easy to prepare for squashing on microscopic slide. The slide preparation can be stained to make them more observable.
We are able to identify each stage of the mitosis process which is interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase of the growing onion root tip cell by observing the processes between the plant cells.
Obtain the prepared slide of the onion root tip. Observe the cells under 400x total magnification. Spend a few minutes looking at all the different cells you see. Find a cell that is in each of the four stages of mitosis: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.
Onion root tip mitosis refers to a type of cell division where the parent cell produces two identical daughter cells resulting in two diploid daughter cells.
In this lab, you will be looking at the cells in an onion root tip. To see if each phase of mitosis happens for an equal amount of time in onion root tip cells. Place an onion root tip slide on the microscope stage.
Students used a compound light microscope along with staining techniques to examine onion root tips and observe the different stages of mitosis, with the goal of learning more about the important cellular process of cell division.
Lab Report 2 - MITOSIS - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. The document summarizes an experiment observing mitosis in onion root tip cells under a microscope. The experiment aimed to observe and identify the different phases of mitosis.
