karyokinesis
IPA: kˈærɪoʊkʌnˈisʌs
noun
- (biology) The process of change that takes place during the division of a cell nucleus at mitosis or meiosis.
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Examples of "karyokinesis" in Sentences
- It is needless to say that I refer to the phenomena of karyokinesis.
- "karyokinesis," and is found throughout the higher animals as well as plants.
- As a matter of fact, in many cases of tissue-formation karyokinesis has not hitherto been detected.
- Here, then (Fig. 29), we see the complex processes of karyokinesis in the first two stages of egg-cell division.
- As in the case of sexual propagation, so in that of karyokinesis, processes which are common to all the Metazoa are not wholly without their foreshadowings in the
- Indirect division or karyokinesis (karyomitosis) has been observed in all the tissuesgenerative cells, epithelial tissue, connective tissue, muscular tissue, and nerve tissue.
- Lastly, with respect to karyokinesis, although it is true that the microscope has in comparatively recent years displayed this apparently important distinction between unicellular and multicellular organisms, two considerations have here to be supplied.
- Fertilization having been thus effected by fusion of the male and female pronuclei into a single (or new) nucleus, this latter body proceeds to exhibit complicated processes of karyokinesis, which, as before shown, are preliminary to nuclear division in the case of egg-cells.
- All this, it will be noticed, is a case of cell-multiplication, which differs from that which takes place in the unicellular organisms only in its being _invariably_ preceded (as far as we know) by karyokinesis, and in the resulting cells being all confined within a common envelope, and so in not being free to separate.
- Association in 1912, argued that all the main characteristics of living matter, such as assimilation and disassimilation, growth and reproduction, spontaneous and amoeboid movement, osmotic pressure, karyokinesis, etc., were equally apparent in the non-living; therefore he concluded that life is only one of the many chemical reactions, and that it is not improbable that it will yet be produced by chemical synthesis in the laboratory.
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