Cell Division: Meiosis
Vocab 		"Simplify, simplify."

--Henry David Thoreau Walden

centromere a specialized, constricted region of a chromatid to which spindle fibers attach during cell division.

crossing-over the breaking and rejoining of homologous, nonsister chromatids during meiotic prophase I, resulting in an exchange of genetic material.

gamete a sex cell.

spindle fibers the cellular apparatus consisting of microtubules that separates eukaryotic chromosomes during cell division.
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