Most cells have already stopped dividing in the run-up to reproduction.
There are also numerous tiny algae, some of which have been caught in the act of dividing in two.
Canna rhizomes expand horizontally with near-obscene enthusiasm, so no matter which way you winter yours it will need dividing in spring.
Within minutes, they were dividing in half to dance in front of four instructors who would decide if they were good enough for callbacks in January.
It has also been shown that the vitamin can stop cancer cells dividing in laboratory experiments, which they must do for tumours to grow.
If it does end up dividing in two, it will lose its precious title of Africa's largest political party; and it might hand the 2015 elections to the newly unified opposition on a silver platter.
Until recently, it was assumed that the theory did not apply to unicellular organisms such as bacteria, since they have no soma to dispose of, merely a single cell that creates the next generation by dividing in two.
But, even as Mitt was spitefully demonizing and dividing in Boca, he remained cardboard-cutout un-self-aware, musing: "The thing which I find most disappointing about this president is his attack of one America against another America".
"I fear our business is dividing in a way that that threatens the continued employment of those of us who make games," Satoru Iwata, the Nintendo chief, said in a keynote address at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Examining a drop of the baby's blood through the microscope, Farber saw the telltale signs of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, billions of malignant white cells "dividing in frenzy, their chromosomes condensing and uncondensing, like tiny clenched and unclenched fists".
They found their sound gradually inclining toward the lushly melodic music in their dad's record collection, and their shows neatly dividing in two: Brian sings the first half, consisting of his songs, Michael emerging from behind the drum kit to sing his songs for the second half.
