Wow! It’s almost a month together with Dr. Parameswari. Well, today we learned about endosymbiotic which I never heard before. But, it’s okay. I hope I could understand after attending the class. This topic is basically used to describe the origin of mitochondria and chloroplast. Where did they come from???

Mitochondria and chloroplast are at one time free living cells, they are able to survive on their own because they have their own ribosomes and DNA which enable them to replicate themselves.

As usual, each group drew a venn diagram to illustrate the similarities and differences between mitochondria and chloroplast. In the next lesson, we are asked to shift to the computer room to access the quiz on cell. OMG! It was totally a shock to us since we didn’t prepare ourselves. 

Later, we continued our class on cell division. The cell cycle of eukaryotes consists of interphase (G1, S, G2 phase) and M phase ( prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase).

It was totally same as what I learned before so I think I can handle this topic well and didn’t really focus much on it. However, I was a bit confused when it comes to the regulation of the cell cycle which is controlled by the proteins in the cytoplasm called cyclins because every phase involves different cyclins!! Maybe I just shouldn’t be overconfident…