Centrosomes

-What is the significance of a centrosome? A plant cell can live without a centrosome. And in animal cells too centrosomes are not required for spindle formation during cell division. -What do they specifically do as microtubule organizing centres? Also in a human ovum (secondary ...

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... to a cell. Animal cells contain 2 centrioles, which together form the structure, centrosome. In other words, the centrioles are found within the centrosomes, which is a small region in the cytoplasm near the nucleus. Within the centrosomes, the two centrioles are positioned in such a way that ...

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i THINK the centromeres duplicate in S stage and the centrosomes duplicate in G2 after the cdck is produced. But i hated cell, so that might be wrong.

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at which stage of the cell cycle does the centrosomes duplicates? read a few journals and they are giving me different answers some state S some state G2 so which is correct?

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... of an animal cell it will still divide. Actually, according to Molecular Biology of the Cell a spindle can form with no problems even without centrosomes. It is called a bipolar spindle, and it has provided evidence that chromosomes play an active role in spindle formation...

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