Mitosis in Action!

Observation of the cell division of C. elegans cells from a 1 cell embryonic stage over a 50 minute time course at 20 second intervals. With music.

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• Mitosis
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[lupuscallidus]

It is a C. Elegans newly fertilized embryonic cell, diving from the 1 cell stage to approximately the 8 cell stage.

The song just a series of instrumental loops combined together in garageband that I thought fit well with the action.

[cleaver1994]

meiosis is the division of nuclei sexually

mitosis is the division of nuclei asexually so its mitosis mate

[EZDLG]

Anyone know's what's the name of this song?

[lAdi3ul]

@jen0619 I agree, it does look like meiosis as it is still contained within one membrane when it reaches 4 cells, its meisos 1 and 2 after a fertilized egg cell

[voleceq]

@jen0619 -- How about when a single cell undergoes several rounds of mitosis in a time lapse video?

[miruzo09]

@EZDLG the song is from garage band

[miruzo09]

@sbrooks056 the song is made from garage band

[themagicman2010]

@sbrooks056 It's made by garageband

[jen0619]

That's not mitosis, that's meiosis, where there are many divisions within one larger cell. Mitosis happens when one cell replicates itself one time.