metaphase

id: GO:0051323
name: metaphase
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A cell cycle process comprising the steps by which a cell progresses through metaphase, the second stage of chromosome segregation in the cell cycle. Canonically, chromosomes become aligned on the equatorial plate of the cell.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0000089mitotic metaphase
GO:0007132meiotic metaphase I
GO:0007137meiotic metaphase II

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0022403cell cycle phase