This step decreases the possibility that the resulting daughter cells will have unbalanced numbers of chromosomes — a condition called aneuploidy. How Do Scientists Study the Cell Cycle?

One road block to understanding the mechanism was that disruption of the Ran GTPase cycle has a vast impact ... Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 5, 209–219 (2004). Yang, W.

When looking at cells with a microscope, the length of different stages of the cell cycle can be estimated using the formula: \(\text{Length of time in phase}=\) \(\frac{\text{observed number of ...