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Mitosis

A digital illustration depicts a conceptual representation of mitosis, showing a central structure with radiating lines and a circular pattern, symbolizing the division of duplicated chromosomes into two daughter nuclei.

The process by which a eukaryotic cell divides its duplicated chromosomes evenly between two daughter nuclei. First described in detail by Walther Flemming in the 1880s, who watched salamander cells under a microscope and named the dancing threads he saw 'chromatin'. The choreography he sketched — condensation, alignment, separation, division — is still the textbook account a century and a half later.

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