Now let's move on to the second phase, known as metaphase. So in metaphase, these two centrioles have now moved to opposite ends, to opposite poles of the cell. And now what happens is these spindle fibers basically radiate outward and attach onto the kinetic core of the centromere of our chromosome pairs. So this is shown in the following diagram. And what also happens is these spindle fibers, which are now connected, they move our chromosomes to the center of our cell and they align our chromosomes on the center line, also known as the equatorial line, which is basically the Y axis shown on the diagram here. So we have our chromosomes align along the equatorial plate, and this is metaphase.