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Q.In an animal cell, duplication of the centriole occurs during the same phase of the cell cycle as:
(a) Nuclear envelope breakdown
(b) DNA replication
(c) Chromosome condensation
(d) Cytokinesis
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In an animal cell, the centriole -- which will organise the mitotic spindle -- duplicates during S phase, the same sub-phase of interphase in which the nuclear DNA itself is replicated. By the end of S phase, the cell therefore has both a fully duplicated genome and two pairs of centrioles, ready to be used to build two separate spindle poles once the cell enters M phase. Nuclear envelope breakdown and chromosome condensation are events of prophase, and cytokinesis is the final division of the cytoplasm, both occurring later in M phase, not during interphase.
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(b) DNA replication
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