Essays Tagged: "Centrosome"

Descriptions of the components of a plant cell.

everything from starch (carbohydrates that can't be stored in the chloroplasts), waste and proteins.CentrosomeThe centrosome is a circular structure much like the golgi that is used to contain the chr ... ch like the golgi that is used to contain the chromosomes of the cell. During cellular mitosis, the centrosome would split in half and the short tentacle like protrusions that called microtubules woul ...

(7 pages) 81 1 3.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology

Cells.

d separates it from its surroundings.During the cell life cycle, at the first stage (prophase), the centrosomes begin to push away each other and the nucleus start dispersing, as the centrosomes push ... rly mitotic spindle. The chromosome appears as they get together. Then during the prometaphase, the centrosomes move to the opposite side of the cell. The fragments of nuclear envelope disappeared and ...

(2 pages) 80 4 3.5 Oct/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

AP Biology Meiosis Essay

as n. Meiosis consists of ninephases.In meiosis the interphase l the chromosomes replicate and the centrosomeduplicates in one diploid cell. Diploid cells have two sets of chromosomes, theyreceived o ... h parent. During prophase l the nuclear envelope fragmentsand spindle microtubules form between the centrosomes. Homologous chromosomespair to make two sister chromatids. This is called synapsis. Chro ...

(1 pages) 44 1 3.5 Jan/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Cell division in animals: mitosis, cytokinesis, and the cell cycle.

f mitosis the nuclear envelope breaks apart. Now that the nuclear envelope is broken up into pieces centrosomes, made in interphase, reposition to the poles of the cell. In the centromere of each chro ... last period of metaphase involves each of the chromatids kinetochore¡¦s fastening to a centrosome from opposite poles of the cell.Then third step in the miotic process is called anaphase. ...

(2 pages) 11043 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology