Sentence examples for reduction division from inspiring English sources
noun
The first of the two divisions of meiosis, a type of cell division.
Each spore mother cell divides by reduction division (meiosis) to produce haploid spores, which are shed in a way characteristic to the ferns.
Before fertilization a type of cell division called a reduction division brings the number of chromosomes in the female pronucleus down to 23, including one X chromosome.
Gametes are formed through meiosis (reduction division), in which a germ cell undergoes two fissions, resulting in the production of four gametes.
William Nicol, who heads the poverty reduction division of the Development Assistance Committee at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of economically advanced countries, scoffed at Usaid's interpretation.
Gametes are reproductive cells that result from meiosis (or reduction division)—in which a specialized cell with a (diploid) double set of chromosomes undergoes two fissions of its nucleus.
Ch Supt Bob Hamilton, head of the licensing and violence reduction division for Police Scotland, raised questions over some of the analysis in the report.
(A ) Still images taken from time-lapse videos of control, miR-965 mutant (KO1/KO2) and rescued mutant showing the reduction divisions of the early histoblast proliferation phase.
Bose is privately held and declined to provide sales figures, but Bernice Cramer, the director of sales for its noise-reduction division, said that a much more diverse group of consumers have started using the headphones.
Male progeny prove Flora's unfertilized eggs were haploid (n) and doubled their chromosomes later to become diploid (2n) (by being fertilized by a polar body, or by chromosome duplication without cell division), rather than by her laying diploid eggs by one of the meiosis reduction-divisions in her ovaries failing.
The decrease in root meristem size could result from decreased activity of stem cells, a reduction of division of the daughter cells within the proximal meristem or accelerated consumption of meristematic cells towards elongation and differentiation.
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