In yeast, the duration of the cell cycle is about:
A
80 minutes
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B
99 minutes
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C
1.5 hours
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D
60 minutes
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Solution
The correct option is C 1.5 hours The cell cycle of yeast is about 90 minutes (1.5 hours) in duration and a human cell takes almost 24 hours to divide by mitosis. Therefore, an yeast cell can perform mitosis almost 16 times in the time taken by a human cell to divide.