spindle

array of microtubules and associated molecules that forms between opposite poles of a eukaryotic cell during mitosis or meiosis and serves to move the duplicated chromosomes apart
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spindle

Summary

spindle is a cellular component[1]. spindle draws 105 Wikipedia views per month (cellular_component category, ranking #74 of 301).[2]

Key Facts

  • spindle's image is recorded as Kinetochore.jpg[3].
  • spindle's instance of is recorded as cellular component[4].
  • spindle is named after spindle[5].
  • spindle's subclass of is recorded as intracellular non-membrane-bounded organelle[6].
  • spindle's subclass of is recorded as cell morphology[7].
  • spindle's part of is recorded as microtubule cytoskeleton[8].
  • spindle's Commons category is recorded as Spindle apparatus[9].
  • spindle's said to be the same as is recorded as mitotic spindle[10].
  • spindle's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D008941[11].
  • spindle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01cfj8[12].
  • spindle's MeSH tree code is recorded as A11.284.430.214.190.750.820[13].
  • spindle's Gene Ontology ID is recorded as GO:0005819[14].
  • spindle's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15].
  • spindle's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16].
  • spindle's Foundational Model of Anatomy ID is recorded as 70989[17].
  • spindle's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0005819[18].
  • spindle's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1166795[19].
  • spindle's schematic is recorded as Spindle apparatus.svg[20].
  • spindle's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 47432576[21].
  • spindle's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 05613253-n[22].
  • spindle's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C47432576[23].

Why It Matters

spindle draws 105 Wikipedia views per month (cellular_component category, ranking #74 of 301).[2] spindle has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] spindle is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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