The two replication forks meet and halt in a region approximately halfway around the chromosome from the origin.

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Covering the rows of hair cells is a thin, viscous, but elastic tectorial membrane in which the tips of the outer hair cells are embedded

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The processes of the hair cells are bathed in endolymph, whereas their bases are bathed in perilymph, this arrangement is necessary for the normal production of

receptor potentials

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Except in the cochlea, the kinocilium, is a true but nonmotile cilium with nine pairs of microtubules around its circumference and a central pair of microtubules. one of the largest processes and has a clubbed end. 

(The kinocilium is lost from the hair cells of the cochlea in adult mammals)

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Stereocilia (all are the same height)

are present in all hair cells

have cores of actin filaments coated with isoforms

of myosin 

increase progressively in height; along the perpendicular axis

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