mitosis

mitosis
noun (plural mitoses) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek mitos thread Date: 1887 1. a process that takes place in the nucleus of a dividing cell, involves typically a series of steps consisting of prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase, and results in the formation of two new nuclei each having the same number of chromosomes as the parent nucleuscompare meiosis 2. cell division in which mitosis occursmitotic adjectivemitotically adverb

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  • mitosis — f. citol. Tipo de división celular en la que a partir de una célula se forman dos células hijas con la misma dotación cromosómica que la progenitora. La mitosis comprende cuatro fases: profase, metafase, anafase y telofase. En la profase… …   Diccionario médico

  • mitosis — (plural mitosis) sustantivo femenino 1. Área: biología Proceso de reproducción celular en el que mediante la división de la célula madre se originan dos células hijas con el mismo número de cromosomas e igual información genética …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • Mitosis — Mi*to sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a thread.] (Biol.) See {Karyokinesis}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • mitosis — mitosis. См. непрямое деление. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • mitosis — (n.) 1887, coined in German from Gk. mitos warp thread (see MITRE (Cf. mitre)) + Mod.L. osis act, process. Term introduced by German anatomist Walther Fleming (1843 1905) in 1882. So called because chromatin of the cell nucleus appears as long… …   Etymology dictionary

  • mitosis — (Del gr. μιτοῦν, tejer, y sis). f. Biol. División de la célula en la que, previa duplicación del material genético, cada célula hija recibe una dotación completa de cromosomas …   Diccionario de la lengua española

  • mitosis — ► NOUN (pl. mitoses) Biology ▪ a type of cell division in which daughter cells have the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus. Compare with MEIOSIS(Cf. ↑meiotic). ORIGIN from Greek mitos thread …   English terms dictionary

  • mitosis — [mī tō′sis, mitō′sis] n. pl. mitoses [mī tō′sēz΄, mi tō′sēz΄] [ModL < Gr mitos, thread + OSIS] Biol. the indirect and more common method of nuclear division of cells, consisting typically of prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase: the… …   English World dictionary

  • Mitosis — Not to be confused with meiosis, miosis, or myositis. Mitosis divides the chromosomes …   Wikipedia

  • Mitosis — Micrografía de una célula mitótica pulmonar de tritón. Cromosomas homólogos en mitosis (arriba) y me …   Wikipedia Español

  • mitosis — mitotic /muy tot ik/, adj. mitotically, adv. /muy toh sis/, n. Cell Biol. 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… …   Universalium

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