meiosis lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes"
• (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
• A type of CELL NUCLEUS division, occurring during maturation of the GERM CELLS. Two successive cell nucleus divisions following a single chromosome duplication (S PHASE) result in daughter cells with half the number of CHROMOSOMES as the parent cells.