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Animations Of Unseeable Biology
The Ted Talk video entitled “Animations of Unseeable Biology” describes the process of DNA replication. As the speaker Drew Berry explains, this process is repeatedly occurring and is performed mechanically. He provides us an animation of how a chromosome is replicated and split with the help of microtubules.
Microtubules are straight tubes that are made up of proteins and it resides within a cell. This hollow tube allows the mitosis phase to occur. The copying of DNA is transported across the microtubules from one nucleus to another being created in the cell. The microtubules also have a communication receptor that signals to the cell that replication has completed and the two nuclei are ready to separate.
Berry’s animation helped me to explain
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