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  • I'll use the cell-division process of meiosis as an example.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Rosie Redfield 2007

  • I'll use the cell-division process of meiosis as an example.

    What does 'memorize' mean? Rosie Redfield 2007

  • Obviously, that fat fool with the ID of an amoeba starved of oxygen during the cell-division process our wonderful Deputy PM had been counting his chickens...

    Sorry, but when was the North East Assembly voted for? 2005

  • Some of the relevant data is that billions and billions of organisms have come into being through sexual reproduction or cell-division.

    Dog Bites Man - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • By “mutation” I mean any cell-division other than meiosis in which the daughter-cell has a genome that is different than the genome of the parent-cell.

    The New Yorker: Devolution by H. Allan Orr - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Obviously, that fat fool with the ID of an amoeba starved of oxygen during the cell-division process our wonderful Deputy PM had been counting his chickens...

    Archive 2005-11-01 2005

  • 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, 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

  • The normal process of cell-division in his body had increased to explosive proportions and was continuing.

    Caller from Eternity Brand, Kurt 1976

  • "Sir," said Dr. Redstone, "I have the unpleasant duty to inform you that you are suffering from a cell-division explosion!"

    Caller from Eternity Brand, Kurt 1976

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