The microscope is an excellent tool of Biology and a great place to start is by observing mitosis as it happens. Mitosis is where cells divide to make more cells so that tissue may grow.

Visualise the steps of mitosis and interact with them in this BBC Bitesize activity written to the Edexcel GCSE Combined Science specification.

Study cell division including DNA, chromosomes, mitosis and the cell cycle, cancer and carcinogens, cell differentiation and stem cells. ... When looking at cells with a microscope, ...

Mitosis: Meiosis: Interphase Interphase is the period between cell divisions. ... The chromosomes are loosely packed and not visible with a microscope. Two pair of centrioles ...

Scientists were able to identify chromosomes under the microscope as early as the 19th century. But what did it take for them to figure out how important chromosomes really are?