During this week (19-23 Oct) in Biology class we started the class on Monday by discussing about meiosis. I didn’t come on Monday, but from the PPT, I learned that meiosis is the cell division that applies on sex cells where the cell became a haploid after being a diploid previously. I also learned that meiosis is important, because if meiosis doesn’t occur, then the chromosome number of each new generation will double, thus killing the offspring. We also learned new vocabularies that we should write on our weebly in vocabulary section. On Tuesday, we continue our discussion in meiosis and start learning about the phases in meiosis. I learned that meiosis has the same phases as mitosis, only it occurs two times, and the second one has the same process that happens in the phases of mitosis. The result of meiosis will be two haploid sex cells. Non-disjunction occurs when the homologous chromosome failed to separate during meiosis. After that, Ms Disty asked us to work in partners and make a poster that explains the difference between mitosis and meiosis, and if we’re not finished, we have to submit it on the next class. So far, there wasn’t anything that I don’t understand, but I’m still a bit confused with the terms, which is why I need to write them down on weebly. On Friday, we started learning on hereditary diseases such as hemophilia, thalassemia, albinism and others. I learned that hereditary disease is a disease passed on from parents and there is no way of preventing it. Carriers are people who carry the disease’s gene but doesn’t have the disease’s symptoms. After that, we were told to find a recent article about genetic biotechnology and write the summary on weebly.
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