Mitosis Was First Discovered In The Early 1880s By Walter Fleeming

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WHO FIRST DISCOVERED MITOSIS?

Mitosis was first discovered in the early 1880s by Walter Flemming. Walter Fleeming was a German biologist. He developed most of his study on cells and the chromosomes that are inside of cells. In 1878, the claimed that cell duplicate in the process called mitosis. Flemming died on August 4th, 1905.

HOW DID MITOSIS GET IT NAME?

"Mito-" which mean "thread" in Greek. The process of cell division are described as threads because during the process of duplication, cells resembled thin thread. "-Osis" which mean "process or state" in Greek. This just help describe Mitosis as a process of duplication that look like thin thread.

BEFORE MITOSIS WAS DISCOVERED.

Before Mitosis was discovered, there

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