Self Assessment Question # 2
for Lesson 5


by Dr Jamie Love © 2002 - 2010
Genetics Course


During meiosis I the number of kinetochores is different from mitosis and that affects how the chromosomes are lined up at metaphase I.
Explain what is special about the kinetochores in meiosis I and how chromosomes at this stage manage to line up at the metaphase plate.


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