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Which phase of mitosis allows the chromosomes to line up along the middle of the dividing cell?

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W. Kaye

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Answered Oct 12, 2020

The phase of mitosis, which allows that allows the chromosomes to line up along the path of the middle of the dividing cell, is referred to as metaphase. Metaphase simply refers to a stage of mitosis which occurs in the eukaryotic cell cycle whereby the chromosomes are at a stage next to their most coiled and condensed.

The phase whereby they reach their most condensed phase is called anaphase. The chromosomes actually carry information about your genes, and they align in the cell equator before they separate into each of the dual daughter cells. About 4 percent of duration in the cell cycle takes place in the metaphase.

In metaphase, the chromosomes' centromeres unite themselves on the equatorial plate or metaphase plate. The metaphase plate is an imaginary line that is of equal distance from the two chromosomes poles. The metaphase chromosomes analysis is one of the major tools of cancer studies and classical cytogenetics.

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M. Gomez

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Answered Sep 30, 2020

Mitosis is known to be one of the processes that cells have to go through so that cell division will continue to take place. The shortest phase of mitosis is called metaphase. This is also the stage wherein the different chromosomes line up in the middle of the cell.

The different chromatids of the chromosomes can be seen on the different spindle poles. The spindle will be in charge of catching all of the chromosomes so that they will be placed in the middle and they will be ready to divide.

Take note that in the metaphase stage of meiosis, it is the sister chromatids that will line up in the middle of the cell.

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P. Halah

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Answered Sep 25, 2020

The phase of mitosis that allows the chromosomes to line up along the middle of the dividing cell is referred to as metaphase. The chromosomes usually line up at the plate of the metaphase after the mitotic spindle must have subjected it to tension. The microtubules capture the two sister chromatids that belong to each chromosome from opposite spindle poles.

In metaphase, all the chromosomes have been captured by the spindle and also get them lined up in the middle of the cell, getting ready to be divided. All the entire chromosomes get aligned at the metaphase plate.

This is just a term to describe the plane where the chromosomes are found lining up, and it is not a physical structure. The two kinetochores that belong to each chromosome, at this stage, should be attached from opposite spindle poles to the microtubules.

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C. Hughes

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Answered Sep 23, 2020

Metaphase. The chromosomes line up along the middle of the dividing cells. In cell biology, mitosis is a portion of the cell cycle when replicated chromosomes are separated into two new nuclei. Cell division gives authority to genetically identical cells in which the number of chromosomes is maintained.

The progression of mitosis is divided into stages subsequent to completing one set of actions and the start of the next. These stages are prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.

After microtubes are located and connected to the kinetochores in prometaphase, the two centrosomes begin dragging the chromosomes toward opposing ends of the cell. The resulting tension causes the chromosomes to align along with the metaphase plate, which is an imaginary line that is situated between two centrosomes.

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D. Loukas

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Answered Sep 20, 2020

Chromosomes will line up in the middle stage when it is already at the metaphase stage. This happens under tension when you reach the mitotic spindle. This is the stage wherein the two sister chromatids of each chromosome can be seen in opposite spindle poles. During the metaphase stage, you will see that the spindle has already captured all of the available chromosomes.

This is the time when all of the cells will be lined up in the middle because this means that they are ready to divide. Cell division is always going to be important because this will make sure that cells will continue to reproduce. Take note that the human body will definitely repair itself through cell division.

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L. Hawkes

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Answered Sep 16, 2020

Mitosis is a type of cell division in which one cell divides to produce two daughter cells that are genetically identical to itself. The majority of cell division that takes place in your body involves mitosis. There are different phases in mitosis which are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase but the phase of mitosis where chromosomes lineup along the middle of the dividing cell is called metaphase.

During metaphase, the spindle fibers attach to the centromere of each pair of chromatids, this sister chromatids lineup in the center of the cell. Some of these spindles do not attach to the centromere of chromosomes rather they attach to each other and grow. Metaphase is the stage after prophase and the stage before anaphase.

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E. Austin

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Answered Nov 27, 2018

When a chromosome divides into two 'daughter' cells for growth and repair, the process is called mitosis. Mitosis is a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus.

It is typical of ordinary tissue growth. the different stages of mitosis the cell first begins to divide, then the DNA produces two copies of each chromosome. In the third stage, the nuclear membrane breaks down and the chromosomes line up across the center of the cell. This is the metaphase.

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Anika Nicole

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Answered May 18, 2018

In Metaphase of Mitosis, the chromosomes line up along the middle of the dividing cells.

Mitosis has four phases which are: Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase and Telophase. In Prophase, DNA becomes wound very tightly and you can see them. Spindles get formed in this phase.

In Metaphase, the chromosomes line up in the middle (we can say that on the equator) of the cell. Afterward, the two sister chromatids of each chromosome get separated from each other in Anaphase, which results in two sets of identical chromosomes. Here, the arrangement of chromosomes that lined up in the middle, is called Metaphase plate.

And in Telophase, a nuclear envelope forms around the chromosomes in both cells.

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John Adney

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Answered May 05, 2017

The answer to this question is that the answer is metaphase.
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John Smith

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Answered Feb 09, 2017

Metaphase
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