Opossums are marsupials and endemic to the regions of America. They are known to display a very unique physiological behavior of playing dead whenever they are under stress due to encounter with a predator. Playing dead is an involuntary response which occurs automatically in the body of opossums which may last from 40 minutes to 4 hours.
Rest of the options are wrong because opossums are viviparous not oviparous. They are nocturnal i.e. active during night & inactive during daytime. They are bigger in size as compared to squirrels.
During the interphase which is also called the S phase, the cell duplicates its chromosomes and ensures its systems are ready for cell division. If all conditions are ideal, the cell is now ready to move into the first phase of mitosis.
