Mitosis in real time
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love the video man
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@tyujyujfgjtyufrt5uyt I like your username ;)
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This is so awesome!!!!!! im really interested in biology
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is that a drosophila embryo?
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@tyujyujfgjtyufrt5uyt Mostly true, but this is not one cell, and nuclei don't obey the same checkpoints at the same time. This is a Drosophila syncytial embryo in which 13 rapid divisions take place without fully forming daughter cells (in part to allow these divisions to occur rapidly). For checkpoints, many individual nuclei do not satisfy checkpoints, die, and sink in the embryo. For example, if you irradiate your embryo too much, only a few nuclei will die from a failed checkpoint.
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What cells were they?
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Just learned about this in science class today.
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did you change/move the color filter at the middle of the video?
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wow!
Mitosis takes about 90 or 120 minutes
vanessalouro 5 months ago 17
Like someone else said, it's a syncytium. Multiple nuclei in one cell - or all those little dark spots in the beginning and end. There are checkpoints - if a cell hasn't done X, it can't divide. Like those pretty webs you see - they're pulling half the DNA to one cell and half the DNA to the other. If a cell can't make those webs, Checkpoint Charlie says "You can't divide." But this is all one big cell, so all the checkpoints work at the same time.
tyujyujfgjtyufrt5uyt 7 months ago 6