During interphase, individual chromosomes are ... The composition of the spindle fibers remained unknown until the 1960s, when tubulin was discovered and techniques were developed for visualizing ...

Spindle fibers form a protein structure that divides the genetic material in a cell. The spindle is necessary to equally divide the chromosomes in a parental cell into two daughter cells during ...

How might spindle fibers spanning the length of the cell be produced ... Now is a good time to revisit the images and information about the basic functions of the cytoskeleton during interphase (cell ...