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Metaphase, from the ancient Greek μετα (after) and φασις (stage), is a stage of mitosis in the eukaryotic cell cycle in which condensed chromosomes, carrying genetic information, align in the middle of the cell before being separated into each of the two daughter cells.

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basically, when all the chromosomes line up.

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Do homologous chromosomes pair up during metaphase 2 as they do in metaphase 1?

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