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Tissue Culture and the Cell Cycle: The Answer Is Revealed

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New techniques of tissue culture enable scientists to grow cells outside a body. This starts a whole process of cell manipulation and investigations which culminate in finally being able to produce consistent preparations of metaphase cells with countable chromosomes. Finally a consensus modal number for the normal complement of human chromosomes is arrived at and a new era begins.

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Wall, W.J. (2016). Tissue Culture and the Cell Cycle: The Answer Is Revealed. In: The Search for Human Chromosomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26336-6_7

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