The arrangement of sister chromatid pairs to the equatorial plane of the cell is called the ______.
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The question is asking for the term that describes the arrangement of sister chromatid pairs to the equatorial plane of the cell during cell division.
Answer
metaphase plate
The arrangement of sister chromatid pairs to the equatorial plane of the cell is called the metaphase plate.
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The arrangement of sister chromatid pairs to the equatorial plane of the cell is called the metaphase plate.
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During the metaphase stage of cell division, sister chromatids align themselves along the metaphase plate, which is an imaginary line equidistant from the two centrosome poles.
Sources
- 2.35: Mitosis and Cytokinesis - Biology LibreTexts - bio.libretexts.org
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