Students as "Human Chromosomes" in Role-Playing Mitosis & Meiosis

The American Biology Teacher | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

Mitosis and meiosis are often challenging for many students to understand, particularly those who are not science majors. Reasons for this difficulty include students' inability to differentiate between doubling (replication), pairing (synapsis), and separating (disjunction), as well as determining whether or not these processes occur in mitosis, meiosis, or both (Smith, 1991). Further misconceptions include a lack of understanding of basic terms - contusing chromatids with chromosomes, or replicated chromosomes with unreplicated chromosomes, etc. (Kindfield, 1994).

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