noun
(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)
• Topics: ↑genetics, ↑genetic science
• Hypernyms: ↑cell division, ↑cellular division
• Hyponyms: ↑nondisjunction
• Part Meronyms:
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noun : the first meiotic division
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Biol.
1. the first division of meiosis in which the number of chromosomes is reduced to half the original number.
2. meiosis.
[1890-95]
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reduction division noun (biology)
Meiosis
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Main Entry: ↑reduce
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reduction division,
= meiosis. (Cf. ↑meiosis)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.