Division in biology

Usage examples of mitosis.

Project Duplicity deals with the development of a chemical which causes mitosis.

The cells show many irregular, hyperchromatic nuclei and large numbers of mitoses.

And, second, chromosomes only resolved themselves out of the chromatin during mitosis, which, of course, was hardly the usual state of affairs within a cell.

To have within my hands the means of reversal was, then, to bear what was inflicted upon us and I did not faint nor did I crumple under these burdens but instead only continued, upward on the ramp, holding hard on the poles that gripped our hands like ropes until finally we came into the place of the vault where we had entered and only then did the halves of us spilt, fission then like mitosis, the beast splitting to parts that were named Ezekiel and Folsom and there we stood, separate once again, looking at one another.

They took him to a museum where animated, enlarged cells underwent mitosis with a plop like a cow lifting her foot from a bog, and a re-created Tyrannosaurus rex coughed and barked and thumped its feet clangorously, its orange eyes glaring straight at Forrester.

Removing most or all of the ancient viral genes, including SHEVA genes, produces gross chromosomal abnormalities following mitosis, failure of fertilized eggs to implant, early absorptions, and miscarriages.

These were the organs which produced the various nutrient fluids circulating in the shell’s vast network of ducts, sustaining the mitosis layer which regenerated the polyp, the starscraper apartment food-secretion glands, the ledge pedestals which fed the visiting blackhawks and voidhawks, as well as various specialist organs responsible for environmental maintenance.

The basic process is the same, meiosis and mitosis, governed by a molecular 'blue-print' not unlike our chromosomes.

During mitosis every chromosome pair replicates and one of the two identical sets of chromosome pairs migrates to each daughter cell, which now has a genotype identical to the mother cell.

I can only conclude that our egg cells are formed through mitosis rather than the usual meio sis, which would more or less halve the number of chromosomes yet again: how else to explain generation upon generation of parthenogenesis?

This is rather difficult to express in an unfamiliar language—the biologists of the first expedition found this process slightly more com­plicated than the mitoses of the fertilized Plookh cell, but—"