Described in the book, Section 1.5.1.
Relevant problems:   Problem 2.7; Problem 3.3; plus solutions on the back of the book.

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Developed in the Spring 2007 semester by Manish Chandrasekhar, Emad Kazerani, Raul Lasluisa, Anirudh Sirohi, Michael Snihur, Nakul Suvarnakar, and Chi-Ho Yu

Click here to run the demo of the Mitosis Lab   (you need Adobe Flash Player).

Project report #3 (final), Spring 2007
[Word document; size of the ZIP file: approx 3 MBytes]

Project files, in case you want to install the full software locally at you computer.
Developed using Adobe Flex and Adobe ActionScript
[ZIP file; size: approx 95 KBytes]  — Contains the following files:

• projectsourcecode.txt -   Source code for Quiz and Lab
• finalProject.html -   HTML document of the Web page from which to run the Mitosis Lab;   must be in the same directory (folder) as the file finalProject.swf (see the next item)
• finalProject.swf -   Contains the actual Flash animation for the Mitosis Lab
• finalProject.fla -   Source code file for the Mitosis Lab
• BioQuiz2.html -   HTML document of the Web page from which to run the quiz accompanying the lab;   must be in the same directory as the file BioQuiz2.swf (see the next item)
• BioQuiz2.swf -   Contains the actual Flash animation for the Quiz
• BioQuiz2.fla -   Source code file for the Quiz

Also check a related paper: ViBE: Virtual biology experiments, by R. Subramanian and I. Marsic

Technologies to Be Used

Flex

Flex Developer Center

[PDF] Tutorial Series: Getting Started with Flex 2 Beta 3

Adobe - Developer Center: Flex 2: Enabling the Next Generation of ...

Adobe - Flex 2.0 FAQ

[PDF] Getting started with Flex 2

Relevant Websites

Mitosis Lab

Mitosis - Labeled Diagram

Mitosis Lab

Cell Division - Mitosis Lab for General Biology BI 01

Cell and Developmental Biology Online - Mitosis

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