Sentence examples for incomplete divisions from inspiring English sources
The Belgian I Corps, with only two incomplete divisions, had been heavily engaged in the fighting and their line was wearing thin.
After each GSC division, the posterior daughter cell becomes a "cystoblast", leaves region-1, undergoes four synchronous, incomplete divisions to form a 16-cell germline cyst [3], [4], and steadily moves in a posterior direction through the germarium.
This effectively replenishes the shorter units lost through incomplete divisions.
After four incomplete divisions, the cystoblast becomes a cyst with 16 interconnected cells (Lin 2002).
sie and sie oocytes have the normal amount of four ring canals, indicating that the germ line went through the normal number of four incomplete divisions (Fig. 1B, inset) and that the compound egg chambers are not generated by an additional division of the germ cell cluster.
If at an early stage of its development the fertilized egg splits into two parts that continue to grow, identical twins will result; incomplete division will result in Siamese twins, born physically joined.
Incomplete division of the foregut into the ventral respiratory portion and the dorsal digestive portion by the tracheoesophageal septum results in esophageal atresia.
Indeed, the incomplete division of the ventricle can be seen as a useful adaptation given that many amphibians and reptiles undergo prolonged periods of apnea (breath-holding), in which a circulatory shunt bypassing the lungs and diverting blood instead to the systemic circulation is highly effective (Hill et al. 2008).
Finally, although incomplete division and syncytial fragmentation are germ cell specific, this study may provide important insights for other stem-cell-supported systems.
In this way, the numerous evolutionary transitions between complete and incomplete division, for example in arthropod and plant embryogenesis, are readily explicable.
However, the observation that incomplete division and syncytial fragmentation occur at constant rates, independent of unit length, may suggest simple rules underlying such complex behaviors.
