Usage examples (37)

• This is before the nucleolus breaks up, which it does at a later stage in the first meiotic prophase.
• Diagrams of late prophase chromosomes (1000-band stage) of human, chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan (left to right for each number).
• Its "epigenesis" is shown to be a literary example of the phases of cell division, with discussions of its prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.
• The chromosones first become visible in prophase I.