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Biology · Ch 7 — Cell Division

Prophase II

7.2.3.2.1

Prophase II

In prophase-II the chromosomes are already distinct, each still made up of two chromatids (carried over from meiosis-I). Each of the two centrioles present divides into two, so that two pairs of centrioles are now available; these migrate to opposite poles and form asters around themselves, with spindle fibres forming between them. As in mitotic prophase, the …