单词 | equatorial plate |
释义 | > as lemmasequatorial plate 3. Biology. equatorial plate [translating French plaque équatoriale (E. van Beneden 1875, in Bull. de l'Acad. R. d. Sci. de Belg. (Classe des Sciences) 2me Sér. XL. 733)] : (in mitosis and meiosis) the position occupied by the chromosomes when arranged in the equatorial plane of the spindle during metaphase. Cf. equator n. 3e. ΚΠ 1887 A. C. Haddon Introd. Study Embryol. ii. 19 At the stage when the chromatin is equatorially situated (the ‘equatorial plate’, which is the equivalent of the wreath and aster stage), the achromatin forms a well-marked spindle-shaped bundle of fibres. 1896 E. B. Wilson Cell ii. 49 The chromosomes group themselves in a plane passing through the equator of the spindle, and thus form what is known as the equatorial plate. 1913 J. W. Jenkinson Vertebr. Embryol. iii. 40 The plane at right angles to the axis and including the centre of the egg is equatorial. 1952 A. F. W. Hughes Mitotic Cycle iv. 116 During metaphase the chromosomes move from random positions into the ‘equatorial plate’. 1958 C. P. Swanson Cytol. & Cytogenetics iii. 52 The spindle..serves to bring the chromosomes onto the metaphase, or equatorial, plate. 1960 L. Picken Organization of Cells x. 501 Either before fertilization or at the eight-cell stage, an equatorial separation of the two halves of the egg gives rise to qualitatively different larvae. < as lemmas |
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