fine art. n. 1. (Art Terms) art produced chiefly for its aesthetic value, as opposed to applied art. 2. (Art Terms) Also called: beaux arts (often plural) any of the fields in which such art is produced, such as painting, sculpture, and engraving.
Metaphase is the second stage of cell division. At the metaphase plate, sister chromatids are attached to the bundle of four to eight spindle fibers.
Chromosomes lined up on the metaphase plate. Two views with the metaphase plate rotated 90Â°. Metaphase (from the Greek Î¼ÎµÏÎ¬, adjacent and ÏÎ¬ÏÎ¹Ï, stage) is a stage of mitosis in the eukaryotic cell cycle in which chromosomes are at their most condensed and coiled stage.