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Exploratorium: Microscope Imaging Station: Mitosis Flipbook

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Use this series of images depicting the process of mitosis in the early embryo of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster to make a mitosis flipbook. In this stage of Drosophila development, nuclei divide very rapidly without cell division and the divisions are synchronized. The mitosis you see here took about 10 minutes from start to fin

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