8 They're also huge. The Great Lakes touch Canada, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Combined, the length of all five shorelines is about 44 percent of the Earth's circumference.
1 Spindle (textiles) , a device to spin fibers into thread. 2  Spindle (tool) , is the main rotating part of a machine tool, woodworking machine, etc. 3  Segmented spindle, a spindle consisting of discrete elements that can be assembled and disassembled on the fly.
Spindle Fibers. spindle fibers A collection of microtubules attached to a centromere during mitosis and meiosis that are responsible for the movement of the chromosomes to opposite poles. Spindle fibers align the chromosomes along the middle of the cell nucleus. This line is referred to as the metaphase plate.ome attach to one kinetochore of a dyad with those growing from the opposite centrosome binding to the other kinetochore of that dyad. Some bind to the arms of the chromosomes. Spindle fibers are made of microtubules. Microtubules are lengthened and shortened by the addition and loss of tubulin subunits.