Mitotic poisons are the substances which inhibit mitosis.
For example -
1. The ribonuclease enzyme acts as poison at prophase.
2. Mustard gas causes fragmentation and agglutination of chromosomes.
3. Colchicine inhibits the formation of mitotic spindle.
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26.Describe Meiosis II or Homotypic division.
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27.Describe significance of meiosis.
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28.Why does a multi cellular organism require two types of cell division ?
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29.“A well known biologist stated that the life history of an organism can be summed up as gametic fusion, equational division and reductional division.” Comment.
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30.Why is meiosis called the reductional division and mitosis called equational division?