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Colchicine Is a Drug That Is Used in Plant Breeding

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Colchicine is a drug that is used in plant breeding to create polyploids. It blocks the assembly of microtubules. If dividing cells are treated with colchicine, at what stage of mitosis would you predict the arrest would occur?


A) prophase
B) metaphase
C) late anaphase
D) telophase
E) G1 of interphase

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