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It's a spatial constraint. As the DNA is replicated, the two resulting chromatids are kept stuck together by cohesin proteins. The DNA sequence that corresponds to the centromere then coalesces the...

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How are chromatids correctly segregated during mitosis?

In my book this is described as happening by kinetochores depolymerising from their attached microtubule spindle, then being dragged towards the spindle's centrosome by a dynein protein. I can...

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