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What is a spireme?

What is a spireme? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.)
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It is closely applied to the nuclear membrane and is connected with an end of the spireme.
In figure 107 one sees the spireme divided into segments still joined by linin bridges.
The spireme here, as also in figure 99, is fine and closely interwound.
As in most of the other species of Coleoptera, the unequal pair is not distinguishable until the spireme stage.
Figure 55 shows the spireme segmented and split longitudinally.
At first it is quite small, and it gradually increases in size during the spireme stage.

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