Energy holds them together.
The mitosis stops when chromosomes are at the maximum condenstation, it is practically metaphase but the chromosomes are not attached to the spindles so they don't form the equatorial plate.
Transcription is a key regulatory<span> point for many</span>genes<span>. Sets of transcription factor proteins bind to specific DNA sequences in or near a </span>gene<span> and promote or repress its transcription into an RNA. RNA processing.</span>