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Word: Mitosis
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek mitos ‘thread’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
mʌɪˈtəʊsɪs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth
Short Definition:type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having same number and kind of chromosomes as parent nucleus
Examples:- the single large egg cell subdivides by repeated mitosis
- each mitosis seems to be associated with an increase in calcium
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