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Definitions of meiosis in various dictionaries:
noun - (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms
noun - understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
The process of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that reduces the number of chromosomes in reproductive cells, leading to the production of gametes in animals and spores in plants.
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| Cell division |
| 9 and sibling framing 'a far-off moon' as rhetorical device |
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| Jan 15 2016 The Telegraph - Toughie |
| Aug 8 2014 Wall Street Journal |
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| Also called reduction division, it's the process by which cells divide in sexually reproducing organisms |
| Meaning "diminution", this cell division process cuts the number of chromosomes in half |
| This process that occurs in specialized sex cells is also known as reduction division |
| Also called reduction division, this type of nuclear division underlies all sexual reproduction |
| In this process of cell division, unlike mitosis, a cell divides & halves the number of chromosomes |
| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a cell dividing on the monitor.) Human sex cells are created via this genetic process, in which one parent cell splits into four daughter cells |
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| Genetics The process of cell division in sexually reproducing organisms that reduces the number of chromosomes in reproductive cells from diploid to haploid, leading to the production of gametes in animals and spores in plants. |
| Rhetorical understatement. |
| (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) |
| understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) |
| the type of cell division that happens as part of reproduction ( the process of producing young animals or plants), in which one cell divides into four gametes ( reproductive cells), each with a different mixture of chromosomes and half the number contained in the original cell |
| the type of cell division in which one cell divides into four gametes ( male or female cells that join to form an organism), each with a different mixture of chromosomes ( cell structures) and half the number as were in the original cell |
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| Meiosis ( ( listen); from Greek , meiosis, which means lessening) is a specialized type of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half, creating four haploid cells, each genetically distinct from the parent cell that gave rise to them. This process occurs in all sexually reproducing single-celled and multicellular eukaryotes, including animals, plants, and fungi. Errors in meiosis resulting in aneuploidy are the leading known cause of miscarriage and the most frequent genetic cause of developmental disabilities.In meiosis, DNA replication is followed by two rounds of cell division to produce four daughter cells, each with half the number of chromosomes as the original parent cell. The two meiotic divisions are known as Meiosis I and Meiosis II. Before meiosis begins, during S phase of the cell cycle, the DNA of each chromosome is replicated so that it consists of two identical sister chromatids, which remain held together through sister chromatid cohesion. This S-phase can |