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I'll use the cell-division process of meiosis as an example.
Archive 2007-10-01 Rosie Redfield 2007
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I'll use the cell-division process of meiosis as an example.
What does 'memorize' mean? Rosie Redfield 2007
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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...
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Some of the relevant data is that billions and billions of organisms have come into being through sexual reproduction or cell-division.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The normal process of cell-division in his body had increased to explosive proportions and was continuing.
Caller from Eternity Brand, Kurt 1976
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"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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