What is happening during the stage of meiosis shown below?
IC
The spindle fibers are pulling the sister chromatids apart
opposite sides of the cells.
B. The spindle fibers are pushing the sister chromatids toward the
center of the cells.
C. The spindle fibers are pulling the tetrads apart to opposite sides of
the cells.
D. The spindle fibers are pushing the tetrads toward the center of the
cells.

it provides an alternative energy pathway for the reaction to proceed.

a catalyst is a substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction but is not consumed during the course of the reaction.

catalysts increase the rate of reaction without being used up. they do this by lowering the activation energy needed. with a catalyst, more collisions result in a reaction, so the rate of reaction increases. different reactions need different catalysts.

a catalyst works by providing an alternative reaction pathway to the reaction product. the rate of the reaction is increased as this alternative route has a lower activation energy than the reaction route not mediated by the catalyst.