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Given below is a diagram representing a stage during mitotic cell division in an animal cell. Examine it carefully and answer the question which follow.
(d) Name the stage that follows the one shown here. How is that stage identified?


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(d) The stage that follows after prophase is ‘metaphase’.
  • Metaphase can be identified by the arrangement of chromosomes in one plane on the equator.
  • The centromeres of each chromosome attach to the spindle fibres and are drawn to the equatorial plane by the equal pull of the spindle fibres.

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