Genetics: Analysis and Principles
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Chapter 3, Problem 6CONQ
How does the attachment of kinetochore microtubules to the kinetochore differ in metaphase of meiosis I compared to metaphase of mitosis? Discuss what you think would happen if a sister chromatid was not attached to a kinetochore microtubule.
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Chapter 3 Solutions
Genetics: Analysis and Principles
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