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Watch It Move: Mitosis
A “Watch it move” animation for Biology Made Fun, Unit 12 — the code printed on page 137, Unit 12's Mitosis spread (Differentiation page).
Animation — MitosisThe concept animation for this page will be embedded here.
Key ideas from the lesson
- Mitosis is the division behind the unit's growth story: one cell becomes two identical cells — the doubling that turns a zygote into two cells, four, eight, and on.
- Each new cell carries the same DNA as the cell it came from, copied by replication before the division.
- Division alone makes more cells; differentiation is what makes them different — the same instruction book, different pages read, until cells specialize into the body's many types.
Why this helps
This is the “Watch it move” companion to Unit 12's Mitosis spread: the divisions you traced on paper, running at the speed they feel like in the book's first-week story.
Try this
Count the doublings: starting from one cell, how many rounds of division make eight? Then say what has to happen after division for a ball of identical cells to become a body.
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