Biology as Poetry: Cell Division

Bacteriophage Ecology Group

Nonkinetochore Microtubule

That aspect of the mitotic spindle that does not interact with chromosomes.

Nonkinetochore microtubules are charged instead with lengthening cells as they press against each other rather than interaction with kinetochores associated with chromosomes. See by contrast nonkinetochore microtubules.

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