NOUN
- the process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells
How To Use cell division In A Sentence
- Primarily they reproduce asexually, which they accomplish by binary fission, or simple cell division.
- The genes for cell division did not evolve to separate different kinds of fish.
- Embryos grow by cell division .
- Chromosomes are visible only during cell division, when the DNA is supercoiled and condensed to facilitate distribution into daughter cells.
- The development of a leaf involves a complex pattern of cell division and cell elongation, with cell elongation playing a central part in the expansion of the leaf blade.
- Cell division occurs mainly at the intercalary meristem at the base of the internode, but also throughout the internode at early stages of internode development.
- They are the first to divide in cell division and form the poles at each end of the cell.
- Cell divisions during development occur in a fixed sequence.
- The value of graphic material is to attract attention and convey information in a summarised form, e.g. cell division.
- The pollen cells are formed from mother cells by a process of cell division and subsequent setting free of the daughter cells or pollen cells by rejuvenescence, which is distinctly comparable with that of the formation of the microspores of Lycopodiaceæ, etc. The subsequent behavior of the pollen cell, its division and its fertilization of the germinal vesicle or oosphere, leave no doubt as to its analogy with the microspore of vascular cryptogams. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
