Cellular Division (IMAGE)

Indiana University

Cellular Division

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Top image: The use of multi-colored dyes to observe cellular division in bacteria reveals that the growth of the cell wall moves inward from the blue edge of the bacterium to the middle, in green, and center, in red. Lower image: A side view of the bacterium shows this "bull's-eye pattern" at the division site.

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Yen-Pang Hsu

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