Spindle fibers form a protein structure that divides ... During the cell division phase called metaphase, the microtubules pull the chromosomes back and forth until they align in a plane along ...

Other spindle fibers do not attach to chromosomes ... Next, chromosomes assume their most compacted state during metaphase, when the centromeres of all the cell's chromosomes line up at the ...

How can you illustrate this? How might spindle fibers spanning the length of the cell be produced? How would this process differ if the centrosomes were not on opposite poles of the cell? Metaphase: ...