This is our stop motion project on how meiosis works. In the video, you can see that we used colour paper to create all the phases of meiosis happening in the cell.

1. Why did you decide to model Mitosis or Meiosis- one over the other? Be specific!!

We chose meiosis because we thought that it would be more interesting learning about more phases instead of only one round of each.

2. What was the most challenging thing in making your movie?

I think the the most challenging part of the stop motion was moving the tiny pieces in between clips because if they moved to much then it would look bad and it was hard not to move them to much.

3. What was the easiest thing to do in making your movie?

The easiest part of making the stop motion was making the voice recordings for each phase because we would just explain what is happening in the video.

4. How could you improve your movie?

I think that with a little more time, we could make each phase look nicer and have better transition between phases of meiosis.

5. Thinking about how you worked with your partner, what were some of the challenges and successes of working in a group?

I think that some of our biggest challenges with a group of three is working on the project when we were not at school and finding a time that all 3 of us could chat and work on it at the same time.

6. Why is Mitosis important? In other words, what is the point of cells performing Mitosis?

Mitosis is an asexual reproduction, in other words, when an individual produces offspring that are clones of both eachother and the parent. It is important because there is no mate required and a large number of offspring are produced.

7. Why is Meiosis important? In other words, what is the point of cells performing Meiosis?

Meiosis is when 2 parents produces offspring that are genetically different from any other member of the species, its parents and each other. (sexual reproduction). It is important because it creates diversity within the species instead of having a bunch of clones and there is disease resistance throughout the species.