Mitosis vs. Meiosis: Side by Side Comparison

After learning about mitosis and meiosis from our individual videos, explore the stages side by side in this split screen video by The Amoeba Sisters! Expand video details for table of contents. Vocabulary in this video includes chromosome, chromatid, haploid, diploid, crossing over, and homologous chromosomes.

Table of Contents:
00:00 Intro
0:49 Mitosis and Meiosis introduced
2:42 Starting Split Screen Comparison

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*We make sure to keep a pinned comment for clarifications or corrections on our videos!* EXPAND FOR DETAILS.

We were able to remove a short segment from this video - as for a few seconds in this video after meiosis I is correctly shown- an image pops up showing how the chromosomes and nuclei would look near the end of meiosis *II* and that image shouldn't be showing yet. We greatly appreciate being made aware of it so we could remove that segment with this image that pops in; sorry it got past our editing! You can check out the table of contents in the video description for updated time stamps.
Also, some helpful things we wanted to add:

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