TEACHER’S INSTRUCTIONS

1) Choose one of the Shutter Folds from the choices below.

Three Color Choices Black & White Cells without Chromosomes

Choose this option if you want

students to draw in the
chromosomes for each stage.

2) Students should label each section of the shutter fold using the
terms: interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase telophase
and after cytokinesis. They should write a description of the
events that take place during these stages.
3) Once completed, students can check their answers against the
answer key.
4) To prepare the shutter fold for the notebook, students
should cut along the solid lines around the shutter fold and
in between each stage of cell division and mitosis.
5) They should fold inwards along the dashed lines.
6) They should apply glue to the back of the two central panels and affix into notebook.
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 ANSWER KEY
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Interphase Description of events:
• Centriole pair replicates.
• DNA replicates to create duplicated
Description of events:
• Spindle fibers pull the sister
chromatids apart at the
 Anaphase

chromosomes. centromere and drag them to

opposite poles.
• The cell elongates.

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Prophase Description of events:
• Centriole pair begins to migrate to
opposite poles.
Description of events:
• The cell begins cytokinesis by
forming a cleavage furrow to divide
 Telophase
the cytoplasm.
• Nuclear membrane begins to
• Nuclear membranes begin to reform
dissolve.
around the separate (but identical)
• Spindle fibers begin to form between
sets of chromosomes.
centriole pairs.
• Spindle apparatus has disassembled
• Duplicated chromosomes begin to
and the spindle fibers dissolve.
condense.
• Chromosomes begin to decondense.
• Nucleolus begins to disappear.
• Nucleolus begins to reform.

 Metaphase Description of events:

• Centriole pairs are fully migrated to
opposite poles.
• The spindle apparatus (mitotic spindle) is
fully formed.
• Spindle fibers have moved the duplicated
chromosomes so that they line up at the
midline (equatorial plate) of the cell.
• Nuclear membrane has completely
disappeared.
• Duplicated chromosomes are at their most
condensed at this stage.
Description of events:
• The two identical daughter cells are
completely separated.
 After Cytokinesis
• Spindle fibers have completely
disappeared.
• The chromosomes are completely
decondensed and lengthened.
• The nucleolus is very distinct.
• The nuclear membrane has
completely reformed. around the
chromosomes.
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