Mother Cell (IMAGE)

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Mother Cell

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This image shows the numbers of divisions for Chlamydomonas cells scale with mother cell size. Left to right are cells of increasing size with the first cell too small to divide and next four undergoing one, two, three or four divisions to produce 2, 4, 8 or 16 daughters.

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Dianyi Liu and James Umen.

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