This page describes the major phases of meiosis, a version of cell division that occurs in cells intended to play a role in sexual reproduction.

Because meiosis creates cells that are destined ... 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 ...

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 ...