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The Telophase Split in Todea
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  • Published: 19 December 1942

The Telophase Split in Todea

  • P. T. THOMAS1 

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I WAS interested in Dr. Manton's communication with her new and apparently incontrovertible evidence of the telophase split1. Her photograph b of somatic chromosomes in Todea shows clearly a displaced double strand which has been under a state of tension.

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