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for the first time by the Polish histologist Waclaw Mayzel in 1875.

Bütschli, Schneider and Fol might have also claimed the discovery of the process presently known as "mitosis". In 1873, the German zoologist Otto Bütschli published data from observations on nematodes. A few years later, he discovered and described mitosis based on those observations.

The term "mitosis", coined

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