ANAPHASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anaphase mean? 

• ANAPHASE (noun)
  The noun ANAPHASE has 1 sense:

1. the stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle

  Familiarity information: ANAPHASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANAPHASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("anaphase" is a kind of...):

phase of cell division (a stage in meiosis or mitosis)

Holonyms ("anaphase" is a part of...):

meiosis; miosis; reduction division ((genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants))

Derivation:

anaphasic (of or related to the stage of mitosis known as anaphase)

 Context examples 

At anaphase onset, a signal is produced to disrupt the linkage between sister chromatids (separation), allowing them to be pulled apart to opposite poles of the cell.

(Mitotic Sister Chromatid Cohesion, NCI Thesaurus)

The mitotic/spindle checkpoint ensures that all replicated chromatids are properly connected to opposing spindle poles before separation (anaphase) can begin.

(Mitotic/Spindle Checkpoint, NCI Thesaurus)

CENP-E, a kinetochore-associated mitotic kinesin, plays an essential role in chromosome movement during mitosis and regulates cell-cycle transition from metaphase to anaphase.

(CENP-E Inhibitor GSK-923295, NCI Thesaurus)

Estramustine and its major metabolite estramustine bind to microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) and tubulin, thereby inhibiting microtubule dynamics and leading to anaphase arrest in a dose-dependent fashion.

(Estramustine, NCI Thesaurus)

At anaphase of meiosis II or mitosis when the centromeres divide and the sister chromatids separate each chromatid becomes a chromosome.

(Chromatid, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell division process consisting of a complex series of events or phases (prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase) by means of which two daughter nuclei normally receive identical complements of the chromosomes and DNA content characteristic of the original somatic cells of the species.

(Nuclear Division, NCI Thesaurus)

Subunit of a chromosome after replication and prior to anaphase of meiosis II or mitosis.

(Chromatid, NCI Thesaurus)