Interphase.
Interphase is the phase of the cell cycle in which the cell spends the majority of its time and performs the majority of its purposes including preparation for cell division.
Prophase I
A cell entering Prophase ˆbehaves in a similar way to one entering prophase of mitosis.
Metaphase I
During metaphase I, the contromere of each chromosome becomes attached to a spindle fiber.
Anaphase I
Anaphase I begins as homologous chromosomes, each with its two chromatids, separate and move to opposite ends of the cell.
Telophase I
Events occur in the reverse order from the events of prophase I. The spindle is broken down, the chromosomes uncoil, and the cytoplasm divides to yield two new cells.
Prophase II
The newly formed cells in some organisms undergo a short resting stage. in other organisms, however, the cells go from late anaphase to meosis 1 directly to metaphase of meiosis 2.
metaphase II
the chromosomes in meiosis undergo a recombination which shuffles the genes producing a different genetic combination in each gamete, compared with the co-existence of each of the two separate pairs of each chromosome (one received from each parent) in each cell which results from mitosis.
Anaphase II
in each cell produced during the first meiotic division the paired chromatids are separated from each other and are moved to opposite ends of the cell. The stage begins as soon as the centromeres connecting each chromatids to its pair break and ends when the two new sets of chromosomes arrive at opposite ends of each cell.
Telophase II
The last stage in the second meiotic division of meiosis which fallows anaphase II. the two sets of chromosomes have finished moving to opposite ends of each of the two cells produced during the first meiotic division. Cytokinesis occurs, resulting in four haploid cells.