Human Embryology and Teratology

Teaching text  19: Cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis  7: Meiosis II


Meiosis II. Cell division begins after a short interphase but without an S-phase. The sister chromatids of the double chromosomes (1n 2C) are now separated from each other and equally distributed between the daughter cells. The second cell division does not differ from mitosis, with prophase II, metaphase II, anaphase II, telophase II, and cytokinesis in the same order as in mitosis. Four cells are formed, each having a haploid set of chromosomes with one chromatid per chromosome (1n 1C).

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