Understanding the steps of meiosis is essential to learning how errors occur. Researchers' initial understanding of meiosis was based upon careful observations of chromosome behavior using light ...

and the fibers from the other centriole attach to the other 23 chromosomes. (Again, only four chromosomes are shown here in order to simplify the illustration.) ...

The process of meiosis happens in the male and female reproductive organs. As a cell divides to form gametes: ...

We now know that this independent assortment of genes occurs during meiosis in eukaryotes. Meiosis is a type of cell division that reduces the number of chromosomes in a parent cell by half to ...

Unlike prophase I, the chromosomes do not attach to the nuclear membrane in order to exchange genetic information.