Bathing beauties undergo mitosis

SynchronizedMitosis.gifThis video shows a swimming pool demonstration, symbolically, anyway, of the basic biological process of mitosis. It doesn’t quite show how the children double in number before separation, but what it does show is graphic in the old, commendable sense of that word. The synchronized swimmers are based, primarily for other reasons, at the University of California, San Diego.

(Thanks to investigator Amanda C de C Williams for bringing it to our attention.)