mitosis

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Instead, these drugs alter mitosis -- sometimes enough to cause new cancer cells to die and the disease to regress.

From Science Daily

Many naturally apomictic plants instead create gametes through mitosis, with no change in the chromosome count.

From Science Magazine

But it is most known as a homework help platform where, for $15.95 per month, students can find ready answers to millions of questions on course topics like relativity or mitosis.

From New York Times

There’s another called “The Biochemist,” where I’m having all these ideas, talking about the zygote, mitosis and meiosis.

From Washington Post

They recognized that the distribution of chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis mirrored what was expected of Mendel’s hereditary ‘factors’, and showed that specific chromosomes were associated with sex.

From Nature