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Replies: 8 Last Post Feb. 14, 2007 2:58pm by killasamuri11
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JC
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dna replication...i learnt about that last year...but months of heavy drinking soon fixed me up
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3:13 am on Feb. 12, 2007 | Joined Nov. 2005 | 382 Days Active Join to learn more about JC Australia | Straight Male | 1678 Posts | 5730 Points
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jakey
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do you mean the process of meiosis? or mitosis? im confuzzled. but we've been doing that recently in A-Level Biology, so i'll try an give you a hand onece i know what you want..
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3:38 am on Feb. 12, 2007 | Joined Jan. 2007 | 70 Days Active Join to learn more about jakey England, United Kingdom | Straight Male | 138 Posts | 855 Points
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jakey
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there a several stages to mitosis, but there are less for this than there are for meosis so its all good. the first is called prophase, in this stage, in the nucleus all the chromatids (little sqwiggles) stop being a big mangled mess and pair up to make chromosomes. these then coil up and get shorter and fatter so we can actually see them. Then theres a stage called metaphase where the chromosomes line up along the middle of the cell, then things called spindle fibres pull on each chromatid making up each chromosome, and pull them in opposite directions so the split up and are no longer in a pair. So now there are two groups of chromatids, and around each of the two groups, a new nucluer membrane forms so you now have two nucleuses. so to summarise, the bits of dna pair up, then all of them line up along the middle of the cell, then they get pulled in half so there are two groups then a membrane forms around each group so you have two nucleuses now all this would be easier to explain with diagrams, but i hope that ive helped you a bit with this? thanks
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4:46 am on Feb. 12, 2007 | Joined Jan. 2007 | 70 Days Active Join to learn more about jakey England, United Kingdom | Straight Male | 138 Posts | 855 Points
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Quote: from jakey at 11:46 pm on Feb. 12, 2007
there a several stages to mitosis, but there are less for this than there are for meosis so its all good. the first is called prophase, in this stage, in the nucleus all the chromatids (little sqwiggles) stop being a big mangled mess and pair up to make chromosomes. these then coil up and get shorter and fatter so we can actually see them. Then theres a stage called metaphase where the chromosomes line up along the middle of the cell, then things called spindle fibres pull on each chromatid making up each chromosome, and pull them in opposite directions so the split up and are no longer in a pair. So now there are two groups of chromatids, and around each of the two groups, a new nucluer membrane forms so you now have two nucleuses. so to summarise, the bits of dna pair up, then all of them line up along the middle of the cell, then they get pulled in half so there are two groups then a membrane forms around each group so you have two nucleuses now all this would be easier to explain with diagrams, but i hope that ive helped you a bit with this? thanks 
It did help a bit thankyou so much
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AtomicCactus
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Did you mean the actual process of duplicating the DNA double helix molecule? (ie the semi-conservative replication model?)
------- You'd think a thousand miles would be enough, I guess I'll keep walking.
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