Here, the mitotic spindle is fully formed, and the chromosomes come apart. Motor proteins of the kinetochores "walk" the chromosomes up the microtubules in both mitosis and meiosis. Spindle microtubules not attached to chromosomes lengthen, elongation the cell.

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