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.
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.