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- Title
BioClips of symmetric and asymmetric cell division.
- Authors
Fong-Mei Lu; Kevin W. Eliceiri; John G. White
- Abstract
Animations have long been used as tools to illustrate complex processes in such diverse fields as mechanical engineering, astronomy, bacteriology and physics. Animations in biology hold particular educational promise for depicting complex dynamic processes, such as photosynthesis, motility, viral replication and cellular respiration, which cannot be easily explained using static two-dimensional images. However, these animations have often been restrictive in scope, having been created for a specific classroom or research audience. In recent years, a new type of animation has emerged called the BioClip (http://www.bioclips.com) that strives to present science in an interactive multimedia format, which is, at once, informative and entertaining, by combining animations, text descriptions and music in one portable cross-platform document. In the present article, we illustrate the educational value of this new electronic resource by reviewing in depth two BioClips our group has created which describe the processes of symmetric and asymmetric cell division (http://www.wormclassroom.org/cb/bioclip).
- Subjects
ANIMATION cels; CELL division; CELL proliferation; BIOLOGY techniques
- Publication
Biology of the Cell (Wiley-Blackwell), 2007, Vol 099, Issue 5, p289
- ISSN
0248-4900
- Publication type
Article