Examples of meiosis in a Sentence
Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2018
The lab is also trying to figure out how to get eggs to enter a special form of cell division called meiosis that prepares them for being fertilized.
—Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
The process of meiosis, the delicate dance of DNA twisting and untwisting with its supporting cast of proteins and other molecules, neatly separates each pair of chromosomes and allocates them efficiently to the nuclei of the primordial germ cells.
—Mark Cohen, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2014
My sons’ high-school biology classes spent more time designing a model recycling center than teaching mitosis and meiosis.
—Andy Kessler, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2022
And rearrangements are typically not advantageous: During meiosis and the formation of gametes, all chromosomes need to pair up with a matching partner.
—Quanta Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
In automixis, small cells called polar bodies – also produced through meiosis with eggs – can merge with an egg to produce offspring and create offspring that are similar to the mother but not exact clones.
—Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2021
Ovaries produce eggs through a complex process called meiosis, where the cells replicate, reorganize, and separate.
—Corryn Wetzel, National Geographic, 25 Aug. 2020
At the heart of this transaction is a process called meiosis, where chromosomes inherited from each parent pair up and swap pieces.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2014
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Word History
New Latin, from Greek meiōsis diminution, from meioun to diminish, from meiōn less; akin to Sanskrit mīyate he diminishes
1550, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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