Abiologist examines a series of cells and counts 160 cells in interphase, 20 cells in prophase, 6 cells in prometaphase, 2 cells in metaphase, 7 cells in anaphase, and 5 cells in telophase. if the complete cell cycle requires 24 hours, what is the average duration of metaphase in these cells?

The average duration of M phase can be determined by adding up the hours spent ineach stage of mitosis. In these cells, M phase lasts 4.8 hours. The table shows thatmetaphase requires 0.24 hours, or 14.4 minutes

The answer to this will be from your lab notes/procedure. it would be best to ask another student who participated in the lab as we do not know what was done, what enzyme or if the temperature is celsius or fahrenheit. if i were to guess though i'd say the rate stopped due to enzyme denturing at high temperature