Definitions for mitosis

mitosis mi·to·sis

Spelling: [mahy-toh-sis]
IPA: /maɪˈtoʊ sɪs/

Mitosis is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in mitosis (iimosst).

Definitions for mitosis

noun

  1. the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.

Origin of mitosis

1885-90; Greek mít(os) a thread + -osis

Examples for mitosis

Figures 99 and 100 are equatorial plates of the first mitosis.

Each of these divides again by mitosis (the chromosomes splitting lengthwise), the half or haploid number remaining.

Diploid (2n) chromosome numbers were determined from cells in late prophase and metaphase of mitosis.

An early anaphase of this mitosis is shown in figure 19; here the small chromosome is already divided.

As the chromatin begins to condense for the second mitosis, disintegration of the element x becomes apparent.

mitosis, then, is a form of growth of a mass, not a generation of new individuals.

Telophase of second mitosis, showing masses of chromatin left behind in cytoplasm.

As noted, in fission the meganucleus divides by direct constriction; each micronucleus by a mode of mitosis.

This increase is therefore reached at an earlier period in the larger wound since the process of mitosis is more rapid here.

The mitosis was definitely decreasing the last time I checked you.

Word Value for mitosis
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9

Words with friends

10

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