Prophase 1 phases

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What is the acronym used to remember the stages?

L eo

Z oomed

P ast

D irty

D an

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What happens in the leptotene stage?

Chromosomes condense and meiotic spindles form microtubules that will start to extend out from centrosomes

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What happens in the zygotene phase?

Nuclear envelope beings to dissolve and homologous chromosomes will pair up creating the protein bridge

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What happens in the pachytene phase?

tetrads are formed from the homologous chromosomes pairing up and recombination nodules can be seen

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What happens in the diplotene phase?

synaptonemal complex dissolved and the homologous chrom will get pulled apart revealing the chiasmata where crossing over has occurred

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What happens in the diakinesis phase?

homologs pair up side by side