The first studies relating DNA replication to mitosis were an off shoot of Herbert Taylors work in Vicia faba. The basic experiment was to pulse cells with 3H-thymidine and start making slides of root tip squashes.
These results are more ofter depicted as a percentage of time .
What regulates the cell cycle?
Cyclins
What are some uses of the cell cycle information?
by Kenneth G. Wilson,
Professor of Botany
Miami University
wilsonkg@muohio.edu