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2 unusual facts about Walther Flemming


Edouard Van Beneden

Van Beneden elucidated, together with Walther Flemming and Eduard Strasburger, the essential facts of mitosis, where, in contrast to meiosis, there is a qualitative and quantitative equality of chromosome distribution to daughter cells.

Lampbrush chromosome

Lampbrush chromosomes (first seen by Flemming in 1882) are a special form of chromosomes that are found in the growing oocytes (immature eggs) of most animals, except mammals.



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