mitotic

mitosis | American Dictionary

mitosis
noun[ U ]
us/mɑɪˈtoʊ·sɪs/
biology
the type of cell division in which one cell divides into two cells exactly the same, each with the same number of chromosomes (= cell structures) as the original cell

Examples of mitosis

mitosis
This nucleus gives rise at the first embryonic mitosis to 20 bivalents which coexist with 20 somatic chromosomes originating from the female pronucleus.
Cells undergoing mitosis appeared spherical, covered with blebs and anchored to the substrate by retraction fibres.
In this context, it is important to point out that the first divisions after karyogamy tend to deviate from the common pattern of mitosis.
Cycling cytoplasmic factors that promote mitosis in the cultured 2-cell mouse embryo.
These fragments appeared to be generated through the destruction of nuclei upon entry to mitosis.
In the present study we have found that the sister blastomeres of tetraploid embryos reconstructed by fusion can also enter mitosis asynchronously.
We conclude, therefore, that the replication-sensitive checkpoints that operate during mitosis are absent or inactive during meiosis.
We cannot exclude the possibility that the spindle assembly checkpoint acts during the first mitosis.
It would be more accurate to say that the centre was undergoing a kind of spatial mitosis.
In normal human cells, the mutant is not present as an endogenous enzyme; the wild-type enzyme is only expressed before mitosis.
When pronuclear heterokaryons enter the first mitosis, their nuclei condense and metaphase chromosomes are visualised.
The other two smaller cells top of the figure have not started mitosis yet.
We focused on the regulation of the first and the second mitosis.
This mechanism is most clearly manifested during the first mitosis.
During mitosis the endoplasmic reticulum is known to aggregate within the asters of the mitotic apparatus.
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