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  • Seriously, Ralph and I were great Physical Anthro teachers, but we always failed at Meiosis and Mitosis.

    Mitosis inexplicably found in popular children’s candy. « Biodork 2010

  • Meiosis and sexual reproduction create tremendous variations in individual organisms.

    Function follows form doyle 2009

  • Meiosis and sexual reproduction create tremendous variations in individual organisms.

    Archive 2009-03-01 doyle 2009

  • Meiosis probably took two billion years to evolve!

    The Memory Hole 2005

  • Meiosis is an unpromising candidate to illustrate the idea that what appears uniform at the level of classical genetics turns out to be heterogeneous at the molecular level.

    Molecular Genetics Waters, Ken 2007

  • John Kyrk has created interactive cell biology animation on topics such as DNA, Cell Anatomy, Meiosis and Mitosis.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Wynn Williamson 2006

  • Meiosis, another old word that we all learned in high school biology and all hoped to be allowed to forget, denotes the cell-division process of the gonads, in which a half share of the available alleles is randomly dealt into each egg and each sperm.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Meiosis is also known as reduction division, because it involves reduction, by half, of the genetic material passed along to each cell.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Meiosis, another old word that we all learned in high school biology and all hoped to be allowed to forget, denotes the cell-division process of the gonads, in which a half share of the available alleles is randomly dealt into each egg and each sperm.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Meiosis is also known as reduction division, because it involves reduction, by half, of the genetic material passed along to each cell.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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