Introduction to Meiosis and Heredity

Thursday and Friday we took our cell cycle, DNA replication, cell division etc.  Exam and took a look at how we did.  Overall I was VERY pleased with how you guys did!!  I mentioned before the second half of the year is WAY cooler than the first.  (although we couldn't fully appreciate this unless we had learned those foundations!!)

We had a two hour delay today because it was STINKING cold........

 ......so......we didn't have a TON of time to dive into our new topic so the majority of the class period was spent on the daily questions.

Watch the following video to hear / see the discussion we had for these daily questions.  It will give you a MUCH better idea of what haploid vs diploid cells are and Homologous Chromosomes.

I like to give you a little "teaser" video to show you some of the weird things we will talk about in this chapter.  This chapter has a TON of interesting stuff - but the dose of it I showed you today is below: