How to pronounce“meiosis”in English
Having offspring that aren’t exactly like you increases the odds that some of them will be able to survive, reproduce, and pass on their genes — even if surprises pop up in the environment.
Meiosis actually has a few different tricks for ensuring genetic diversity.
Like, remember how crossing over sometimes happens during Prophase I? Homologous pairs swap sections of chromosomes, like I trade Pokémon. By the way,
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Definitions of “meiosis”
A figure of speech in which something is presented as smaller or less significant than it actually appears.
“I knew, with one of those secret knowledges that can exist between two people, that her suicide was a direct result of my having told her of my own attempt – I had told it with a curt meiosis that was meant to conceal depths; and she had called my bluff one final time.”
Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
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