To add a number of years, months and/or days, use the DATE function. Note: the DATE function accepts three arguments: year, month and day. Excel knows that 6 + 2 = 8 = August has 31 days and rolls over to the next month (23 August + 9 days = 1 September).
Letâs multiply the percentage of cells in each stage by one-thousand, four-hundred and forty minutes to calculate how long the cell spends in each stage. We find that in a 24-hour period, the cells we observed spend 1000.2 minutes in interphase, 180 minutes in prophase, 128.2 minutes in metaphase, 77.8 minutes in anaphase, and 51.8 minutes in telophase.
Now weâre going to do an experiment to determine how much time cells spend in each phase of cell division. Letâs count the number of cells in some onion root tips during each phase, and use this information to answer the question. On this slide, there are 21 cells in interphase, 4 in prophase, 2 in metaphase, and 1 in telophase. Why are most of the cells in interphase? Recall that interphase makes up the majority of the cell cycle. Letâs look at another slide. In this slide, there are 16 cells in interphase, 1 in prophase, and 1 in anaphase. Go ahead and try characterizing the cells yourself. Good job! Good going! Youâve got it! Nicely done! Thatâs right! Sorry, thatâs not correct. This cell is in interphase.