Schematic detailing the measured distance between acentrics and daughter nuclei as acentrics segregate toward nuclei. (A) Diagram illustrating that acentrics rejoining daughter nuclei will have a decreasing distance between the tail of the acentric and the closest point on the daughter nucleus. As time progresses, and the acentric completely reenters the daughter nucleus, the distance between the tail of the acentric and the daughter nucleus will approach 0. (B) Diagram illustrating that acentrics forming micronuclei will have a decreasing distance between the tail of the acentric and the closest point on the daughter nucleus until the acentric reaches the location where it is incapable of entering the daughter nucleus. As time progresses, the acentric will remain distinct from the main nucleus, and the distance between the tail of the acentric and the daughter nucleus will be measured as >0. See also Fig. 5.