Question

Suppose that you finish graduate school and decide to take over your family business culturing yeast to be packaged and sold to bakeries. The lead technician mentions that they have been having trouble growing the yeast because they seem to have acquired a mutation that causes them to proliferate more slowly. You whip out your microscope, stain the yeast with the appropriate fluorescent probes, and see that the yeast cells are all arrested in metaphase. What phase of the cell cycle are the cells in

Answer 1

The phase of the cell cycle in which the cells are in are called the Stationary Phase.

Step-by-step explanation:

In cell growth, there are various stages involved which determined the actions that took place in within the cell environment. This stages ranges from the lag phase, log phase, stationary phase and lastly death or decline phase.

In the case of the yeast cell being arrested in metaphase as a result of the mutations in it which causes it to grow slowly, this lead it to be in the stationary hase of the cell cycle.