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During telophase, when new daughter cells form how do they "know" what type of cell they will become?
Jane Revollo has had many influential science mentors in her life, but her first arrived long before she ever set foot in a classroom. "My dad was a physicist," she explains. "I grew up with science, and even [tagged along] at his conferences."