Biology A-Level
telophase
What telophase means in Biology A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
Two dense groups of chromosomes at the poles, beginning to uncoil, with a new nuclear envelope forming and a cleavage furrow or cell plate appearing.
The stage in which two nuclei reform and the cell plate begins to form between daughter cells.
Topics that use telophase
- All cells arise from other cells (AQA A-Level)
- Cell division, cell diversity and cellular organisation (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- anaphase
- genetically identical daughter cells
- interphase
- metaphase
- acid hydrolysis and squashing
- Asexual reproduction and cloning
- attachment protein and receptor
- cell plate and Golgi vesicles
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