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What does mitosis mean?

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Noun
  1. (cytology) The division of a cell nucleus in which the genome is copied and separated into two identical halves. It is normally followed by cell division.
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Meiotic spindles form after fertilization of the worm embryo in the same cytoplasm that later supports embryonic mitosis.
Upon muscle injury, these cells undergo mitosis, proliferate, form syncytium and ultimately form new skeletal myocytes.
Glaucophytes undergo open mitosis and lack centrioles associated with the centrosomes.
All further cell divisions from this unicellular stage of the human being occur by simple mitosis.
Note that macronuclear karyokinesis and cytokinesis has initiated in rad 51 nulls despite the failure to complete micronuclear mitosis.
Vascular invasion, mitosis, and cell pleomorphism are not observed in cases of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia.

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