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The products of division of the other daughter-cell began to differentiate, and soon formed all the necessary kinds of cells to make up the body of the mature worm.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

Each daughter-cell contracts and becomes more or less rounded, secretes a wall of its own, and by the bursting or absorption of the wall of its mother-cell becomes free.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various

We thus have one daughter-cell with 8 chromosomes and the other with 6.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

Thus each daughter-cell after the first or heterotypic division in normal cases contains 7 chromosomes.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.

One of each pair goes into one daughter-cell and the other into the other, but not all maternal into one and all paternal into the other.

From Hormones and Heredity by Cunningham, J. T.