We (Pam Kalas, Jolie Mayer Smith and Rosie Redfield) have created new stop-motion ‘candymation’ videos of mitosis and meiosis, and have submitted an article explaining why we think these are badly needed.
Here’s the trailer for the animations:
Article describing the animations, submitted to PLOS Biology (Tackling biology’s memorization problem: new tools for mitosis and meiosis).
PowerPoint slide deck introducing the ‘Pair-Pull-Part‘ strategy used by both mitosis and meiosis (pptx).
Mitosis Animation:
Mitosis Guide for Instructors
Meiosis Animation:
Problem sets about the genetic consequences of meiosis: