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An arrangement of chromosomes in the equatorial plane of a spindle; a metaphase plate. Cf. aster, n. 4(b), diaster, n. Now disused.
The process by which a cell nucleus divides to give two daughter nuclei each with the same chromosome complement as the parent nucleus; this process…