Miosis Case Study Essay

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Summary Everything which is living is composed of different living parts called cells. Cells are the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism, typically microscopic and consisting of cytoplasm and a nucleus enclosed in a membrane. The human body has many different types of cells which all exist to perform different tasks and functions. Without cells all organisms would cease to exist. Like all living things, the cell must also reproduce and eventually die. Cells reproduce through a series of division called mitosis, and also through a nuclear division called meiosis which produces two separate cells that only contain half of the genes found in the mother cell. Within the body most cells use mitosis to divide and reproduce. …show more content…
For example nervous tissue, skeletal muscle and heart muscle all lose their ability to divide once they are fully mature. If they are damaged or when they begin to die repairs are made with a type of connective tissue composed of fibers, commonly called scar tissue. Personal Comments I thought that this project was a very good way to get our mind thinking using different method of learning. For example Writing on the paper, Reading the article, and typing a different my redenomination of the paper allowed me to learn the subject in multiple ways. However, I wish that we would have learned about a different topic. Mitosis is an undeniably important topic for any health career personal to know about; however, that also means we learn about it in every science class we take. This Project would have been more rewarding if I could have learnt about a subject of which I had no prior knowledge. The beginning was a good introducing to cell division and It helps to look at the diagram on the following pages to get a visual interpretation of what I was reading. Although this project was time consuming and frustrating at time I feel like it taught me a lot and wouldn 't mind doing another

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