Colchicine is a drug that blocks formation of the mitotic spindle apparatus.What would you expect if you applied colchicine to a petri dish of bacteria?
A) The bacteria would be unable to divide, because they could not form the spindle apparatus for mitosis.
B) The bacteria would continue to divide, because they carry out mitosis without a spindle apparatus.
C) The bacteria would continue to divide, because they carry out binary fission, which does not require a spindle apparatus.
D) The bacteria would be unable to divide, because they would be unable to form new cell wall partitions.
E) The bacteria would increase their rate of mitosis, so the number of cells would rapidly increase.
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