What are the steps involved in metaphase 1?

(1) The centrosomes are at opposite poles of the cell. (2) The chromosomes, now at their most highly coiled and condensed, become arranged on a plane equidistant from the two poles called the metaphase plate. In metaphase 1 chromosome are in the form of bivalent ( Synapses ). read more

Prophase II (note: there is no interphase as seen in mitosis) during which chromosomes start to move to the metaphase II plate. There is no replication. Next is metaphase II when the chromosomes align at the metaphase II plate. In anaphase II the sister chromatids separate from each other and move towards opposite poles. read more

However, when meiosis takes place during oogenesis, egg cell production, in human females, only one functional egg cell is made. At the end of meiosis I, only one of the two daughter cells continues down the egg cell pathway, while the other becomes a non-egg cell called a polar body. read more

In metaphase II of meiosis, the following events occur: The chromosomes line up at the metaphase II plate at the cell's center. The kinetochore fibers of the sister chromatids point toward opposite poles. At the end of metaphase II of meiosis, the cell enters into anaphase II. read more