Mitosis and chromosomes (Flemming)
Mitosis y cromosomas
- Date
- 1879-1882 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Kiel, Germany
- Credited to
- Walther Flemming; name 'chromosome' by Waldeyer (1888)
- People
- 👤 Walther Flemming1843–1905
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Using aniline dyes he observed in salamander cells the strands of chromatin and described the phases of nuclear division (mitosis), showing that chromosomes duplicate and are shared out equally.
What it led to
- cytogenetics
- the chromosome theory of inheritance
- understanding cancer as a failure of cell division
Built on
- Cell theory (Schleiden and Schwann)1838-1839
- aniline stains