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A literal chip off the cutting edge

As you can imagine from the previous image, cleaving to produce retinal can be tiring work and post-cleft carotenoids are usually pretty tuckered out. What you may not know is that endoreduplication results in an increase in the nuclear DNA content, thus permitting amplification of the genome of specialized cells - in this case, well-deserved vacation spot cells. The locale is usually left to the cells having their genomes amplified and here they've chosen a Schloß in den Bergen replete with spa facilities.

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Uploaded on November 30, 2008
Taken on November 30, 2008