I called some students a bunch of “pre mitosis gnats” earlier today. Don’t ask where that came from…. my thoughts, they sometimes just fall out without my consent. But it wasn’t to their face. Anyways, that made me think of the fun phases of the process especially when they were pronounced in Malay. Anafasa and telofasa was not funny to you? It was to me. I only remember telofasa because in the textbook and in revisions books the illustrations for the telophase always reminded me of a telur. True fact. Ah, mnemonics. And I will always remember that mitosis and meiosis was the first question of the second paper of biology, which was also the final paper on the final day of SPM exams and which I’m sure I bombed so spectacularly it’s really quite amazing that I didn’t fail the subject. I consistently had nightmares about those exams over the next ten years. Biology wasn’t fun. The only fun there was to be had was the joke about a garden hose and vas deferens.
And this is how my brains zigs and zags and zigs again when it really should be zagging.
Tried to catch you but then realized that with my Factory Reset I no longer had MSN messenger (or rather a viable version thereof) on my computer. Sigh.
I look for and count mitotic figures every day at work. But I still don’t remember the individual phases of mitoses or meiosis.