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Mitosis Onion Root Tip Lab
Mitosis Onion Root Tip Lab
Procedure:
Backgound:
Sample Total
Cells Interphase Prophase Metaphase
Anaphase Telophase
1 1.00% 1 1.00%
12 5.00% 3 1.00%
6.5 0.03 2 0.01
3. The cells in the root of an onion are actively
dividing. How might the numbers you count here be
different than if you had examined cells from a different
part of the plant?
The slides could look very different from the slides in this
lab. The cells would divide much quicker in order for more
rapid growth, therefore, there could be many more cells in
the later stages of mitosis. The cells would be mostly in the
stages of anaphase and telophase.
An error that was made during this experiment was that the
microscope wasn’t originally focused on the tip of the onion
root. This would mess up the experiment results because
the data wouldn’t be exclusively from the root tip. Another
error that was made was that the number of cells in each
stage of mitosis weren’t counted, they were more like
estimated. This threw off percentages for each stage of
mitosis and possibly is what made the hypothesis proven
false.