Aneugenic Agents:

Terms Related to Aneugenic Agents

• Centrosome

  The cell center, consisting of a pair of CENTRIOLES surrounded by a cloud of amorphous material called the pericentriolar region. During interphase, the centrosome nucleates ...

• Mitotic Spindle Apparatus

  An organelle consisting of three components: (1) the astral microtubules, which form around each centrosome and extend to the periphery; (2) the polar microtubules which ...

• Genetic Non-Disjunction

  The failure of homologous chromosomes or chromatids to segregate during mitotic or meiotic cell division with the result that one daughter cell has two chromosomes ...

• Kinetochore

  Large multiprotein complexes that bind the centromeres of the chromosomes to the microtubules of the mitotic spindle during metaphase in the cell cycle.

• Mitotic Apparatus

  An organelle consisting of three components: (1) the astral microtubules, which form around each centrosome and extend to the periphery; (2) the polar microtubules which ...

• Metaphase

  The second phase of cell division, in which the chromosomes line up across the equatorial plane of the spindle prior to separation.