Dyad
A dyad is composed a pair of homologous chromosomes or sister chromatids. It can be found during Anaphase 1 of Meiosis at a process called disjunction. The tetrad migrates into opposite poles of the cell as they are divided into two, which are the dyads [1].
During Meiosis II, the process starts with dyads (2 haploid cells) instead of tetrads, which is similar to Mitosis [2].
References
- ↑ Alberts, Johnson, Lewis, Morgan, Raff, Roberts and Walter (2015) Molecular biology of the cell 6th Edition. New York. Garland Science, Taylor & Francis Group.
- ↑ http://cyberbridge.mcb.harvard.edu/mitosis_7.html (accessed December 2015)