mitotic sister chromatid segregation

Term Information

Accession
GO:0000070
Ontology
biological process
Synonyms
narrow: mitotic sister-chromatid adhesion release
alt_id: GO:0016359
exact: mitotic chromosome segregation
Definition
The cell cycle process whereby replicated homologous chromosomes are organized and then physically separated and apportioned to two sets during the mitotic cell cycle. Each replicated chromosome, composed of two sister chromatids, aligns at the cell equator, paired with its homologous partner. One homolog of each morphologic type goes into each of the resulting chromosome sets. [source: GOC:ai]
Comment
None
Subset
None
Community
There have been 0 comments for this term. If you would like to view or participate in the community annotation, please continue to the GONUTS page.

Back to top

Term Lineage

Switch to viewing term parents, siblings and children

Filter tree view help!
Filter Gene Product Counts
View Options

Tree view


Back to top

External References

None.