What would happen to the progeny of a cell that proceeded to mitosis and cell division after entering S phase but had not completed S phase? Keep in mind that highly condensed chromatin, including the centromere region, is replicated late in S phase
Explain your answer.
The daughter cells would probably die. Those chromosomes that had not completed replication in S phase would have only one centromere, because the centromere is the last part of the chromosome to be replicated; the chromosome would therefore be segregated to only one of the two daughter cells at random. At least one, and probably both, of the daughter cells would thus receive an incomplete set of chromosomes and would be unlikely to be viable. Even if one daughter cell, by chance, received a full set of chromosomes, some of these chromosomes would be incompletely replicated and the cell would probably still not be viable.
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