Mitosis: Science Project

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Mitosis
I chose to do mitosis in my science project because i knew about mitosis more than the other topics on the list of options. In my project, i modeled mitosis with styrofoam balls, paint, and clay. I modeled the steps prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and cytokinesis . I modeled the steps by cutting the styrofoam balls in half, painted them and I put the clay models of organelles inside the styrofoam cell i made. I made skin cells as the type of cells i am using for my model, by making the color of the cells the color of skin.. Mitosis is an important process because it reproduces cells, and increases cell growth.
It grows the tissue of the organism stronger and larger, and thus making the organism grow bigger and better. All

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