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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The stage of mitosis and meiosis, following prophase and preceding anaphase, during which the chromosomes are aligned along the metaphase plate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In cytology, the second or middle stage of karyokinetic cell-division, or mitosis, in which the chromosomes are collected to form the equatorial plate of the spindle and undergo longitudinal fission. Compare
anaphase andtelophase .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the stage of
mitosis andmeiosis , that followsprophase and comes beforeanaphase , during whichcondensed chromosomes becomealigned before beingseparated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the second stage of meiosis
- noun the second stage of mitosis
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Examples
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- Perhaps the most recognizable phase of mitosis is termed metaphase, a stage where the chromosomes, attached to the kinetochore microtubules, begin to align in a single plane (known as the metaphase plate) midway between the spindle poles (see Figure 1 (c)).
unknown title 2009
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- Perhaps the most recognizable phase of mitosis is termed metaphase, a stage where the chromosomes, attached to the kinetochore microtubules, begin to align in a single plane (known as the metaphase plate) midway between the spindle poles (see Figure 1 (c)).
unknown title 2009
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- Perhaps the most recognizable phase of mitosis is termed metaphase, a stage where the chromosomes, attached to the kinetochore microtubules, begin to align in a single plane (known as the metaphase plate) midway between the spindle poles (see Figure 1 (c)).
unknown title 2009
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Standard cytogenetic analysis including preparation of karyotypes, metaphase and interphase based fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), high resolution single nucleotide polymorphism oligonucleotide based array (SNP array) analysis and mutation analysis of the INI1/SMARCB1 gene are available.
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Okay - it's out there, but the third cake the second set of bat cupcakes looks like chromosomes in metaphase to me.
Halloween Heckling 2009
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He neglects to mention that metaphase I oocyte chromosome alignment is mechanistically different from mitosis the chromosomes are physically tethered to each other, and that metaphase II, which is mechanistically similar to mitosis, does have abnormalities.
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He reports that while Xkid deficient frog cells have PEF defects, frog oocytes have normal metaphase I.
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He reports that while Xkid deficient frog cells have PEF defects, frog oocytes have normal metaphase I.
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It predicts that spindle microtubules in animal cells begin to oscillate at the beginning of prometaphase, and that those oscillations rapidly accelerate until metaphase,.
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He neglects to mention that metaphase I oocyte chromosome alignment is mechanistically different from mitosis the chromosomes are physically tethered to each other, and that metaphase II, which is mechanistically similar to mitosis, does have abnormalities.
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