CELL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION
CELL CYCLE
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Interphase
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Prophase
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Metaphase
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Anaphase
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Detailed explanation-1: -Metaphase. During metaphase, spindle fibers attach to the centromere of each pair of sister chromatids (see Figure below). The sister chromatids line up at the equator, or center, of the cell. This is also known as the metaphase plate.
Detailed explanation-2: -Metaphase II of meiosis II: The chromosomes align at the equatorial plate and the spindle fibers attach to the sister chromatids.
Detailed explanation-3: -Metaphase follows prophase. During metaphase, the chromosomes align in the center of the cell at the equatorial plate and the spindle fibers attach to the centromeres of the chromosomes.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the next stage, metaphase I, the spindle fibers attach to the kinetochores of the homologous chromosomes aligned along the metaphase plate.