It is referred to as the mitotic spindle during mitosis , a process that produces genetically identical daughter cells, or the meiotic spindle during meiosis , a process that produces gametes with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell. Besides chromosomes, the spindle apparatus is composed of hundreds of proteins .
Excuse. In jurisprudence, an excuse or justification is a defense to criminal charges that is distinct from an exculpation. Exculpation is related concept which reduces or extinguishes a person's culpability and therefore a person's liability to pay compensation to the victim of a tort in the civil law.
sake (plural sakes) 1  Cause, interest or account. For the sake of argument. 2  Purpose or end; reason. For old times' sake. 3  The benefit or regard of someone or something. 1897, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity: When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. 2005, Plato, Sophist.