by Merry and Elio — More of­ten than not, ba­sic cel­lu­lar phe­nom­ena have been de­ci­phered first in bac­te­ria, and then later elu­ci­dated in eu­kary­otic cells. A glar­ing ex­cep­tion is mi­to­sis which was first de­scribed for eu­kary­otic cells in the 1880's. The cor­re­spond­ing story for bac­te­r­ial chro­mo­somes has re­mained un­char­ac­ter­is­ti­cally elu­sive. Truth...