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Q.In S phase of the cell cycle

(a) Amount of DNA doubles in each cell
(b) Amount of DNA remains same in each cell
(c) Chromosome number is increased
(d) Amount of DNA is reduced to half in each cell
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Step 1. A cell enters S phase with the unreplicated, 2C amount of DNA characteristic of G1.

Step 2. During S phase, DNA replication takes place across the whole genome, and by the end of S phase every chromosome has been copied into two sister chromatids.

Step 3. This replication raises the cell's total DNA content from 2C to 4C - that is, the DNA content doubles, even though the chromosome number (number of distinct centromeres) does not change yet. …

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