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Q. An alkaloid, which arrest cell division is obtained from

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Colchicine is obtained from autumn region plant, Colchicum autumnale. It inhibits the formation of the mitotic spindle. When this drug is administered in the somatic cells, the chromosome duplicate but mitotic non-disjunction occurs.