Mitosis is a process of nuclear division in ... and they remain joined at a central point called the centromere. A large structure called the mitotic spindle also forms from long proteins called ...

Without centromeres, cells cannot divide properly and the overall process of mitosis fails. Why are these small chromosomal regions so essential to such a major cellular process? With a few ...

In mitosis, for example, centromeres of sister chromosomes can attach to the same spindle pole ... As a readout for functional asymmetry, we measured the position of the paired homologous chromosomes ...

Mitosis is the mechanism by which a eukaryotic ... Central to this process are microtubules, the mitotic spindle, centromeres, kinetochores, and mitotic checkpoints. Microtubules, components ...

Replicated chromosomes remain attached to each other by their central region: the centromere ... It can be seen in the stages shown above that mitosis maintains the chromosome number or complement ...