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Prophase is inside the nucleus the chromosomes get short and thick and as they coil up become visible as pairs attached by the centromere. The centromere is joined to special proteins to from the kinetochore.

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the chromosomes were first discovered in the rod shape in the nuclei of the plant cell in 1842.

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meiosis, prohase I

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