The Rb protein seems to function similarly in plants and animals to stop cell division and start differentiation in cells that leave the stem cell niche. Polycomb proteins are used to maintain a ...

Smaller genomes enable plants and animals to grow much more quickly ... is that the reduced amount of DNA needed for each ...

The basic structure of most animal and plants cells is shown below. All cells are produced from other cells by the process of cell division. Cell division occurs when one cell divides to produce ...

For instance, by definition every multicellular organism possesses multiple cells that remain associated following cell division ... ones that gave rise to plants and animals, occurred deep ...

For successful cell division, chromosomal DNA needs to be packed into compact rod-shaped structures. Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown ...

Selective weedkillers kill plants that some species of animals rely on as a food source ... Hormones are used to stimulate cell division and elongation. When pollen has fertilized the egg cells ...

Right timing of cell division His group has now discovered that Plk1 is not essential for the start of cell division. "Rather, it acts as a molecular switch to ensure that cells start dividing at ...