Question

You are a contestant on the local biology quiz show and the $10,000 question is "When examining tissue with a microscope, how can you tell FOR SURE if a cell is going through mitosis?" The correct answer would be that:

a. You can see the amino acids are forming peptide bonds
b. You can see the DNA bundled into chromosomes
c. You cannot tell You can see the nucleolus
d. You can see the homologous chromosomes are pairing up

Answer 1

D would be the correct answer because homologous chromosomes pairing is a sign that it's going through prophase, which is a part of mitosis.