mitosis
DNA replication begins before the onset of the first mitotic division.
Bacteria have been shown to disrupt the first mitotic divisions in fertilized eggs.
Such mutants were considered to be of mitotic origin.

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mitotic | American Dictionary

mitotic
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/mɑɪˈtɑt̬·ɪk/
biology
relating to mitosis (= a type of cell division)

Examples of mitotic

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Mitogen-activated protein kinases phosphorylate nuclear lamins and display sequence specificity overlapping that of mitotic protein kinase p34cdc2.
A mitotic heterokaryon carries thus a unique metaphase plate composed of 20 somatic chromosomes of egg-cell origin and 20 meiotic bivalents.
Simultaneously a decrease in mitotic activity was also observed.
At this early stage the mitotic spindle is located some 50 m from the top of the blastodisc.
Nevertheless, none of the genes required for proper mitotic chromosome condensation have been seen to play a role in male meiosis.
During mitosis, calmodulin redistributes to the mitotic apparatus and to condensed chromosomes.
The data therefore demonstrate that the male centresome uniquely forms the mitotic apparatus in ascidian zygotes, whereas the female meiotic centresome degenerates.
Tetrads with both a mitotic and meiotic origin are listed twice.
If loss of heterozygosity due to mitotic recombination were to occur, two descendant populations of genetically distinct cells will result.
Their study shows that the time lag and the threshold resulting from covalent modification are essential for the onset of mitotic oscillation.
They may, for example, inhibit the stimulating effect of endogenous growth factors on mitotic divisions of the myoblasts in the copulatory organ.
Mitotic figures had a baseline value of 5.5 per villus-crypt unit, and this rose to in excess of 25 in some experiments.
Karyological analysis was carried out on photographs of 54 well-spread gametogonial and embryonic mitotic metaphase plates.
Yeast is very suitable for analyses of eukaryotic recombination mechanisms in both mitotic and meiotic cells.
Could this intellectual blind spot result from the fact that mature neurons, being post-mitotic, do not succumb to the disease?
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