The Rb protein seems to function similarly in plants and animals to stop cell division and start differentiation in cells that leave the stem cell niche. Polycomb proteins are used to maintain a ...

The basic structure of most animal and plants cells is shown below. All cells are produced from other cells by the process of cell division. Cell division occurs when one cell divides to produce ...

For instance, by definition every multicellular organism possesses multiple cells that remain associated following cell division ... ones that gave rise to plants and animals, occurred deep ...

New research reveals that cells don't always become round before dividing, challenging over a century of textbook biology.

Smaller genomes enable plants and animals to grow much more quickly ... is that the reduced amount of DNA needed for each ...

Auxin is the first plant hormone—or "phytohormone"—ever identified, with its discovery dating to the late 19th and early 20th ...