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 events of metaphase II are similar to those of mitotic metaphase — in both processes, the chromosomes line up along the cell's equatorial plate, also called the metaphase plate, in ...

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 ...