The five phases of mitosis and cell division tightly coordinate ... which are complex platelike structures that assemble during prometaphase on one face of each sister chromatid at its centromere.

Without centromeres, cells cannot divide properly and the overall process of mitosis fails ... Figure 3 shows one model of how CENP-A and CENP-B might interact with alpha satellite DNA.

Same as in mitosis, except that the spindle fibers from each centriole attach to one chromosome of a matching chromosome pair. In other words, the fibers from one centriole attach to 23 ...

The activity on this page has been designed ... During this stage, one set of chromosomes is pulled to the sides of the cell and the nucleus divides. The phases of mitosis are known as prophase ...

Mitosis, which describes only the division of ... With meiosis in a female, most of the cell's cytoplasm will be concentrated in one of the two emerging cells, which will result in one large ...