What happens to the volume of the lacuna immediately following the mitotic division of a chondrocyte?
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Correct answer: It temporarily contains both daughter cells
Immediately after mitosis, the two daughter cells are housed within the single original lacuna. They are only separated into individual lacunae once they have synthesized a sufficient partition of territorial matrix.
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