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Spindle fibre unite with which structure of chromosomes?

Updated On: Aug 3, 2024

chromocentre
chromomere
kinetochore
centriole.

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Spindle is microtubular apparatus that appears ; in many eukaryotic cells at the beginning of nuclear division and is responsible for the ordered separation of the chromosomes, chromosomes being attached to the j spindle fibres by their centromeres. Two types of spindle fibres can be distinguished as the interpolar fibre, which stretches continuously from pole to pole of the spindle; the kinetochore fibre, which stretches from the pole to the centromere (kinetochore) of an individual chromosome. The mechanism by which the chromosomes move and the spindle fibres contract remains unclear. Cells of animals and lower plants possess centrioles, which act as organizer regions for spindle microtubule formation, but centrioles are absent from the cells of higher plants.

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Meiosis

Meiosis is a process in which a single cell, a diploid cell, undergoes division twice to produce four haploid daughter cells, and the cells produced are known as the sex cells or gametes (sperms in males and egg in females). It contains half of the original amount of genetic information. The haploids only have half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell.

Features of Meiosis:

It results in the formation of four daughter cells in each cycle of cell division.
The daughter cells are identical to the mother cell in shape and size but different in chromosome number.
The daughter cells are haploid.
Recombination and segregation take place in meiosis.
The process occurs in the reproductive organs and results in the formation of gametes.
The process is divided into two types-Meiosis-I reduces the chromosome number to half and is known as reductional division. Meiosis-II is just like the mitotic division.

Phases of Meiosis

Meiosis can be divided into nine stages. The process is usually divided into two parts. The first time a cell divides (meiosis I) and the second time it divides (meiosis II). The phases are as follows –

Meiosis 1 Stages

The different stages of meiosis 1 can be explained by the following phases :

Prophase 1
Metaphase 1
Anaphase 1
Telophase 1

Meiosis 2 Stages