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The cell's long rehearsal before the five-minute show called mitosis.
means The phase in a cell's life cycle when it's growing, carrying out its normal functions, and copying its DNA, in the stretch of time between one division and the next.
from Built straightforwardly from Latin 'inter-' (between) plus 'phase' (from Greek 'phasis,' an appearance or stage, related to 'phainein,' to show). Coined by biologists to name the 'between' stage separating the visible, dramatic stages of mitosis — a plain descriptive label for what turned out to be the cell's busiest, least glamorous chapter.
- time spent here
- about 90 percent of the cell cycle
- three acts
- G1 growth, S phase copying DNA, G2 prep
- misleading name
- not resting, just not dividing yet
- dna doubling
- entire genome copied during S phase