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#Question id: 2984


Certain unicellular eukaryotes, including diatoms and some yeasts, have mechanisms of nuclear division that may resemble intermediate steps in the evolution of mitosis. Which of the following is a characteristic feature of nuclear division in these organisms?

#I Life Science/ Life Sciences Group – I-V
  1. They reproduce by binary fission in their early stages of development and by mitosis when they are mature.

  2. They have circular chromosomes that are segregated by a mitotic spindle.

  3. Chromosomes are segregated by a mitotic spindle, but the nuclear envelope remains intact during division.

  4. Chromosomes are segregated by attachment to the plasma membrane.