Would it be possible to explain the process of meiosis via the use of several pairs of socks?
Description: This is a fun, easy way to teach the process of mitosis and meiosis. This will strengthen vocabulary concepts like homologus pairs, diploid, haploid, tetrad and many others. This lesson will also clear up concepts like sexual determination, trisomy and even twining. Materials: Four or five pairs of socks. The more used looking the better. Lesson Plan: I start with a long, striped piece of fabric that has been twisted hundreds of times to represent chromatin material. (Use a mixer tied to one end of fabric and the other end of the (five yards by five inch) fabric to something very stationary.) I might discuss histones and nucleosomes and how much information is coded onto the chromosomes. Next, I blow up a large, clear balloon, which I have preloaded with two identical socks, joined at the center with a Velcro \”centromere\”. I blow up the balloon, which represents the nuclear membrane, then I pop it. The two socks represent a chromosome that has duplicated. I use socks wit
