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 membrane around the nucleus disappears. Metaphase Chromosomes and their copies line up in the middle of the cell. Anaphase Chromosomes and their copies are pulled to different ends of the cell.

We show here that dicentric X chromosomes with closely apposed centromeres remain functionally dicentric. Behaviour of dic(X)s in anaphase/telophase did not correlate with the presence of a mosaic ...

As the cell proceeds through the stages of cell division (from left to right: interphase, prometaphase, metaphase, and anaphase), chromosomes become progressively more compact through a ...

For this, the cell must duplicate its DNA—its genome—and segregate it equally into two new daughter cells. To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell ...

is a crucial mechanism that prevents chromosome missegregation by ensuring that all chromosomes are properly attached to the ...

The chromosome pairs separate; half of the chromosomes move toward one end of the cell, the other half, to the other end. The chromosomes' sister chromatids do not separate as they do in mitosis.

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division, each chromosome forms a compact X-shaped structure with two rod-like copies. How the cell ...