Biology · Ch 7 — Cell Division
Telophase
Telophase
Telophase is the final stage of karyokinesis, and in many ways it reverses what happened in prophase. The chromosomes, now sitting at the two poles with their centromeres, begin to uncoil, lengthen, and lose their individually distinct appearance, going back toward a diffuse chromatin state. The nucleolus, which had disappeared earlier, starts to reappear, and a new nuclear membrane begins to form around each group of chromosomes. The spindle fibres, having done their job, break down and are absorbed back into the cytoplasm. By the end of telophase, two separate daughter nuclei have been formed within the still-undivided cell. …
What this figure shows. A cell with two clusters of daughter chromosomes that have reached the two poles and are shown uncoiling and lengthening back toward chromatin; around each cluster a new nuclear envelope is re-forming and a nucleolus is reappearing inside it, so that two distinct daughter nuclei become v …