mitosis

IPA: mitˈoʊsɪs

(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.

Examples of "mitosis" in Sentences

All life divided through mitosis, which is asexual reproduction, not female.
The entire process of cell division, referred to as mitosis, takes only about an hour.
Science keeps eddying into its past: the word mitosis—Greek for “thread”—is resonant here again.
Well, it was more about the way chromosomes get divided or doubled in two processes called mitosis and meiosis.
(in a process called mitosis, depicted on the right), their genomes grow shorter until they reach a point where replication can no longer occur.
In the simplest form of reproduction, one cell cutting itself in two to make two new ones, known as mitosis, the change begins in the nucleus, or kernel.