While Jeff was looking under the microscope at cells in different stages of mitosis, he commented on the fact that many cells were in the same stage. If you were looking under the compound light microscope at an onion root tip, in what stage of the cell cycle would the majority of the cells be?
A) anaphase
B) metaphase
C) cytokinesis
D) interphase
E) prophase

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Cells spend the majority of their time in interphase. Therefore, when looking at a large number of cells, the majority of the cells would be in interphase.

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