The DNA in chromosomes copies itself ready for mitosis. Prophase The DNA in chromosomes and their copies condenses to become more visible. The membrane around the nucleus disappears. Metaphase ...

Mitosis is conventionally divided into five stages known as prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. While mitosis is taking place, there is no cell growth and all of the ...

Consequently, females are born with a finite number of oocytes arrested in the first meiotic prophase. Within the ovary, these oocytes grow within follicle structures containing large numbers of ...

It is one of the final phases of genetic recombination, which occurs in the pachytene stage of prophase I of meiosis during a process called synapsis. Synapsis begins before the synaptonemal complex ...