With the aid of these microtubules, the chromosome pairs then line up along the equator of the cell, termed the metaphase plate (Figure 2). As the new chromosomes reach the spindle during ...

Cell division, the basic means by which genetic information is passed from generation to generation, involves tightly coordinated movements of a cell's DNA. This page describes the major phases of ...

The chromosomes align along the metaphase plate. As in mitosis metaphase, (and unlike meiosis metaphase I), fibers from the centrioles begin to pull on each one of the chromosomes from both ...

The chromosomes line up on the metaphase plate, an imaginary line that divides the cell in two. Also, the fibers begin to tug each chromosome toward opposite ends of the cell. Same as in mitosis ...