meiosis
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In this study, Underwood and his team established a system, in which they replace the meiosis by mitosis, a simple cell division, in the most popular vegetable crop plant, the cultivated tomato.
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Furthermore, unlike other typical Heat Shock Factors, which primarily regulate gene expression in response to stress, such as heat shock, HSF5 plays a specific role in male germ production during meiosis under non-stress conditions.
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This variation is attributed to the process of meiosis, which generates reproductive cells like sperm and eggs in animals or pollen and ovules in plants.
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The sperm and egg are made during meiosis, the process by which cells with two chromosome copies reduce their chromosome numbers to one.
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"A significant contributor to infertility is defects in meiosis," said Billmyre.
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