About me:

genderless

age: 23 days oldMitosis, so little time, yet

From: An Animal

Cell’s latest blog entry:Mitosis, so little time, yet so many stages.

Last Login: 3-14-08

Cell’s Interests

Books:

Science Explorer: Cells to Heredity

Campbell’s Biology

Biology: Concepts and Connections

Favorite Website: Mrs. Novotny’s!!!

Heroes:

Watson and Crick, for taking time to get to know the inner me.

Robert Hooke for finding me and naming me!

Schleiden, Schwann, and Virchow for naming a theory after me!

Cell Theory:

•All living things are composed of cells.

•cells are the basic units of structure and function in living things

•All cells are produced from other cells.

Cell’s Details

Status: Single

Body Type: circular

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Organelles (pictured):

•nucleus, with chromatin

•mitochondria

•centrioles

•lysosomes

•golgi apparatus

•plasma membrane

Cell’s Blurbs

I spend so much time in interphase – like 21 hrs out of a 22 hour day. Then I have mitosis for like, less than an hour, and then cytokinesis. All I’m trying to do is make a copy of myself, like you know, make another skin cell. It’s not like it’s rocket science or anything, it’s just molecular biology. I totally love CDK and Cyclin – they’re my BFFL! They totally let me know when, like a cell next to me dies, and tell me to get OUT of interphase and move into mitosis. Of course, I can’t go into mitosis without getting bigger and making a copy of my chromatin – my DNA! Then, I totally start mitosis. First off I go to prophase, which means I let my guard down, or really just my nuclear envelope. My chromatin totally winds up into chromatids, and then my “sister” chromatids line up together and wear a really sweet belt – called a centromere. Those centrioles, which only work for like an hour a day finally start making spindles. Now I am stylin’ and ready for metaphase! Metaphase my centrioles go to either size of my cell, attach their spindles to my centromeres, and my chromosomes all line up in the middle. Finally, Anaphase, when the chromatids separate, and I get bigger. The spindles pull the chromatids up to either side of the cell. Finally, the last stage of mitosis – telophase. The centrioles’ spindles disappear, my nuclear envelope reappears, and my chromatids unwind. Basically, I totally undo prophase. Then I divide – which I like to call cytokinesis.

Cell has 3 friends: CDK, Cyclin, and Tom