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Meiosis consists of two divisions. Both are somehow similar to "ordinary" type of cell division - mitosis, but there is no DNA replication between them. As mitosis, each of two meiosis divisions might be divided into 5 stages: Profaze (condensation of chromosomes, formation of microtubular spindle apparatus between two centrosomes) Prometaphase (the ...


I seem to understand the thing now. The video is utterly simplified for animal cell meiosis I and II. In oogenesis, you get after every anaphase one cell with very little cytoplasm, polar body, and another cell with much cytoplasm. In the video, the amount of cytoplasm is equal so the thing is idealized. The video is better to explain male gametogenesis: ...
