Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Schizosaccharomyces pombe yeast. S. pombe is a single-celled fungus that is studied widely as a model o

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Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Schizosaccharomyces pombe yeast. S. pombe is a single-celled fungus that is studied widely as a model organism for eukaryotic cell division. It is a rod-shaped yeast that grows by elongation at its ends. It replicates by binary fission. Magnification: x8000 when printed at 10 centimetres wide.

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Photo credit: © STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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