The word agenda is the Latin plural of agendum, but in English the word agenda is usually taken as a singular, and item on the agenda used for individual things in the list. (temporally organized plan): docket, worklist, schedule. hidden agenda.
The third stage of mitosis, in which the spindle is complete and the chromosomes, attached to microtubules at their kinetochores, are all aligned at the metaphase plate. Metaphase plate An imaginary plane during metaphase in which the centromeres of all the duplicated chromosomes are located midway between the two poles. Metastasis The spread of cancer cells to locations distant from their original site.
Concept 5: Meiosis I: Metaphase I. The pairs of chromosomes (bivalents) become arranged on the metaphase plate and are attached to the now fully formed meiotic spindle. To see metaphase I animated, click the Play button. Play â¶. Reset 1  âº. The centrioles are at opposite poles of the cell. 2  The pairs of homologous chromosomes (the bivalents), now as tightly coiled and condensed as they will be in meiosis, become arranged on a plane equidistant from the poles called the metaphase plate.