The nuclear membrane and nucleoli fade away. Spindle fibers develop and attach to centromeres. Chromosomes line up individually on the equator. The spindle fibers shorten and pull the duplicate chromosomes to opposite sides of the cell. There is one complete set of chromosomes at each end of the cell.
Chromosomes become longer, thinner and more compact.
Nuclear membrane and nucleoli reappear. The two daughter cells produced should be identical to the part cell. Meiosis The purpose of meiosis is to produce sex cells. Occurs in the production of gametes in animals, and spores in plants and in some simple organisms. Meiosis produces four daughter cells from one parent cell, each with one-half the number of chromosomes of the original cell.