Andrea and Kamar are inspecting microscope slides. Each slide shows a cell or cells. The students' task is to identify which sta
ge of the cell cycle each slide shows. Kamar reads, "Squamous cells from human cheek swab." "I recognize this one. It's in interphase," says Andrea, peering into the microscope. Two round cells each with a nucleus containing many entangled chromosomes Based on Andrea's observation, what might have been happening in the cells at the time they were collected?
Two round cells containing entangled chromosomes show that these chromosomes are DNA strands and DNA can't "survive" out of the body or a wound. Larger wounds are larger impacts, depending on the impact, DNA might not even be able to live in the wound if near surface, therefore, the cells were decomposing out of the wound that was opened/surfaced.
