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mitosis

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noun

  1. cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes

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Prophase, then, is the build-up to mitosis-or, at least, the visible part of the build-up.

Spores (n) Meiosis Female gametangium (n) 1 2 Mitosis and development 3 4 Mitosis and development 5 17.7

Once development begins, the embryo divides rapidly and each mitosis seems to be associated with an increase in calcium.

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meiosis

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noun

  1. (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
  2. understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)

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Barot A, Kleckner N (2008) Yeast Pch2 promotes domainal axis organization, timely recombination progression, and arrest of defective recombinosomes during meiosis.

This can happen either occasionally during cell wounding or regularly during cytokinesis and meiosis.

Sutton worked with grasshopper chromosomes, and it was in this paper that he showed that chromosomes occur in distinct pairs, which segregate at meiosis.

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